I know this is in HuffPo’s “Women” section, but having recently gone through it, this list is just as valid for men.

Ask any living person, anywhere, and they can tell you how breakups feel — like utter sh*t. It’s pure awfulness — rejection and pain and loss so bad you can barely fill your lungs with anything but bile. Still, it’s a marvel when you think about it — from the hidden Amazonian tribesmen to the highest Wall Street moguls, every one of these billions of people will tell you the same thing about breakups: They f**king suck.

a-petro-manifesto:

thewaterwillcome:

evilteabagger:

I’m a libertarian because I’m white, male and I hate minorities and the poor.

I was a socialist but I started to realize that socialism was more about punishing the rich than creating more opportunities for the poor and…

I’m black and lower middle class, and I hate myself and my people. I do crazy things like go to grad school vote not-Democrat.

On the other hand, fiscal secession would be a boon to most blue states. The citizens of California — harder hit by the recession than most — receive from Washington only 78 cents for every tax dollar they send to Washington. New Yorkers get back only 79 cents on every tax dollar they send in. Massachusetts, 82 cents. Michigan, 92 cents. Oregon, 98 cents.

In other words, blue states are subsidizing red states. The federal government is like a giant sump pump — pulling dollars out of liberal enclaves like California, New York, Massachusetts, and Oregon — and sending them to conservative places like Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Old South.

As a practical matter, then, Rick Perry’s fight to save America from Washington is really a secret plan to save blue states from red states.

Perry, it turns out, is a closet liberal.

The Obama administration is on pace to have more American soldiers killed in casualties related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than the George W. Bush administration did in its first term.

Already, hundreds more American troops have been killed in Afghanistan during the less than three years of the Obama administration than during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration. According to the iCasualties.org Web site, whose count more or less tracks that of other sites devoted to these statistics, 630 American soldiers died in the Afghanistan operation in the years 2001 through 2008, when Mr. Bush was president, while 1097 American soldiers have died in the years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Even if you allocate the 30 or so American soldiers killed in January 2009 entirely to Mr. Bush, who was president until the January 20 inauguration, it is quite a record.

Include Iraq, and the comparison tells a similar story: about 1,300 Americans killed in operations related to Iraq and Afghanistan combined during the first two and a half or so years we’ve had of the Obama administration, versus less than 600 American casualties in the first full three years of the George W. Bush administration.

It all raises at least two related questions. First, where are the antiwar protests? And second, where is the press?

Whatever happened to the “Daily Body Count” in all the dailies? They were always there, even if they didn’t change.

(Source: laliberty)