Y'all have most likely heard of this already. Just in case you haven't, at a fundraiser, Mitt Romney said, among other things, the following:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who ( Read more... )

So. Apparently I've been more tense than I was consciously aware, for like, the past eight years. That's a little scary, because I knew I was tense. Tense is a laughable descriptor, actually. You know the old Looney Tunes cartoon with the cat that kept getting startled and rocketing up to the ceiling? And then clinging there with its fur ( Read more... )