I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.
BILL MAHEROnly a Bush could answer a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question two different ways and be wrong both times.
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Denying racism is the new racism.
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They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.
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Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn’t know a game is going on?
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Funny that all of Nixon’s crimes – anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars – are all legal now. Discuss.
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The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.
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Hot women have to stop putting long paragraphs of text on their bodies. I know you think it’s sexy but one thing that men never think is, “Gee, you know what would make this sex better? Having something to read.”
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America is like a dog. I’m sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can’t actually explain issues to a dog.
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Maybe a president who didn’t believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.
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The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he’s the only one in the world who treats me like I’m the Beatles.
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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
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The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, ‘You know what? Let’s just grab lunch.’
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You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.
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What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don’t call him stupid because they don’t agree with you politically.
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We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.
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Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.
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There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote.
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.
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Religion is insanity by consensus.
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The answer isn’t another pill. The answer is spinach.
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We don’t really have to make fun of religion – it makes fun of itself.
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The thing I don’t understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who’s supposed to pretend they don’t want it?
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Just honest. To me, being ‘politically incorrect’ means the opposite of being political — which means to spin everything. That’s all it’s ever meant to me. It’s never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.
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The cable TV sex channels don’t expand our horizons, don’t make us better people, and don’t come in clearly enough.
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Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.
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If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.
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The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
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