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Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”

But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”

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Patton Oswalt (via deantrippe)

All of this. Man was made with a heart and a fist. The fucking anxiety I feel when shit like this happens is crippling. I’m going to the gym now, and reupping my EMS certs once we move to Boston.

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Shelter - a game in which you play as a mother badger who needs to protect her young.

I am REALLY intrigued by this. How crazy sad will it be when I am bad at it and have to deal with baby badger death at the hands of like an hawk or a stream or something?

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Lessons from my home state of Indiana, along with Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, can breathe new life into the national Republican Party. The stories of the governors, mayors, state office holders and others who have cut taxes and balanced budgets are worth knowing and emulating in part because they have done what Washington has been incapable of doing.

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Pete Seat, Republican revival: What the states can teach the national party (via msnbc)

I hope with every little piece of me that the national Republican party tries to govern exactly like Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin have been governing. It will be like watching Hemingway try to shoot sharks.

(via msnbc)