Random Stuff Since I'm Too Busy to Blog Properly

"Tim Wigley, president of the Western Energy Alliance, drew groans from the crowd when he mentioned U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, who is bankrolling two ballot measures opposed by a broad coalition of Coloradans for fears of what they will do to the state's oil and gas industry.

"'There are forces that are coming to Colorado who want to gut the oil and gas industry in this state," he said. "They are big out-of-state interests ...'

"Wigley elicited nervous laughter when he borrowed a line from Rush Limbaugh to describe those collecting signatures to put the [anti-fracking] measures on the ballot as "long-haired, maggot-infested hippie freaks.''

-- Denver Post

"Caring for the poor does not make you a communist."

-- Pope Francis

"One day the AIs will look back on us the same way we look at fossils."

-- trailer for Ex Machina

"Texas has been a conservative state since dinosaurs roamed it 6,000 years ago."

-- Jon Stewart