Things I've Noticed

The idea that I would make a pact or a wager with the supernatural, in which I don’t believe, in the sort or fearful hope of better treatment is, to me, wholely disgusting and suggests that what people must think of their god is that he’s either a fraud or a monster that would smile on that kind of plea and that kind of loss of dignity.

— Christopher Hitchens on dying of esophageal cancer (via sixtyforty) (via friendlyatheist)

In a weird way, by equating policy disagreements with a genocidal egomaniac, you’re actually disrespecting Hitler. You’re actually bringing his evil down to the level of the mundane, which we should never do. Obama is Hitler because he created a consumer protection agency? C’mon.

— Michael Ian Black’s Tirade Against a Racist Obama-Hater During Set (Updated) (via notemily) (via cijimcb) (via stfuconservatives)

Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is “two minutes’ walk and round a corner” from something else isn’t actually “in” the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes’ walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen’s pillow.

— Charlie Brooker on the “Ground Zero Mosque” (via nickdouglas) (via edkohler)