pisshets:

The fact that when they first tested the nuclear bomb they thought that there was a possibility it could set the atmosphere on fire and end all life on earth but still set it off anyway is a testament to the fact that we are only alive via dumb fucking luck

donnajosh:

Foreign Ops came out of markup. They only cut two billion, and they shifted half a billion from the Sub Saharan to Western Europe because I guess the crippling hunger in Provence has given the lactose intolerant a problem with… I don’t know, but I can live with all that. Clancy Bangart attached an amendment, stipulating that Foreign Ops dollars wouldn’t go to any overseas clinics that council abortion. There’s a handful- a handful and a half of cranky conservative senators who want this stuff, and were waiting to pounce. It’s what happened.

elizabethallan:

You’ve been given a chance to turn back time, what age would you go back to, and what would you do differently? I don’t think I would change anything. I don’t want to take a risk with that. I like my life, for the most part. I’m healthy. I’d probably go back and focus more on learning another language or learning the piano. But maybe then I’d be a depressed pianist? Don’t get me started on this question.”