You may have thought that Mark Twain was some kind of literary genius, but did you also know that he personally ruined America by being such a good writer of books, which ruined America? We've finally reached the chapter we've been waiting for in Kevin Swanson's culture-war epic
Mark Twain lived here in Hartford Connecticut for many years. (His house is a <strike>pit of hell</strike> museum that has classes on writing, though none seem focused on <i>comment writing</i> so I haven&#039;t enrolled yet.) I&#039;m kinda worried that maybe it was Hartford that possessed him of the devil.
&quot;In religion and politics people&#039;s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.&quot;
Divorce is most often influenced by two things: failed expectations (i.e., marrying too young) and failed finances (i.e., marrying before you can afford it.) I don&#039;t know about you, but the prosperous Left Coast, where most people wait until well into their twenties or even thirties to get married, doesn&#039;t seem like the right environment for divorce to be rife. (and in fact, it isn&#039;t)
<i>&quot;... a chapter which will get my heirs and assigns burnt alive if they venture to print it this side of AD 2006.&quot;</i>
Twain miscalculated how many Americans would <a href="http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5617890\/way-too-many-americans-believe-in-witches" target="_blank">still believe in witches</a> 100 years later.
Yes.
Somehow, I don&#039;t think Twain would much mind leading America into Hell if Heaven was full of Swansons.
<i>Letters from the Earth</i> should be required reading for all high school students.
Aint that the fellow what wrote about a guy named Knee grrrr Jim,you would think they would love him
Instead, they had been prepped by their media people for the Catalan Press Conference.
(Or the Basque AMA?)
Counting relatives?
Classic alt-text.
<i>&quot;When it comes to the church of Christ, somehow the apostate mind becomes a straw-man factory.&quot;</i>
When it comes to Swanson&#039;s arguments, It&#039;s straw-men all the way down.
Mark Twain lived here in Hartford Connecticut for many years. (His house is a <strike>pit of hell</strike> museum that has classes on writing, though none seem focused on <i>comment writing</i> so I haven&#039;t enrolled yet.) I&#039;m kinda worried that maybe it was Hartford that possessed him of the devil.
&quot;In religion and politics people&#039;s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.&quot;
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Divorce is most often influenced by two things: failed expectations (i.e., marrying too young) and failed finances (i.e., marrying before you can afford it.) I don&#039;t know about you, but the prosperous Left Coast, where most people wait until well into their twenties or even thirties to get married, doesn&#039;t seem like the right environment for divorce to be rife. (and in fact, it isn&#039;t)
<em>To this day, the highest divorce rates in America are found in the Western states. </em>
Ummm .... no. Actually the highest divorce rates are in the Bible Belt South. Check out <a href="http://www.religionnews.com..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/01/21/study-cons...">http://www.religionnews.com... and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/us-divor...">http://www.huffingtonpost.c....
<i>&quot;... a chapter which will get my heirs and assigns burnt alive if they venture to print it this side of AD 2006.&quot;</i>
Twain miscalculated how many Americans would <a href="http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5617890\/way-too-many-americans-believe-in-witches" target="_blank">still believe in witches</a> 100 years later.
The most religious states have the worst infant mortality rates. I assume that&#039;s because of God. <a href="http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db120.pdf" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db120.pdf">http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dat...
<a href="http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/167267\/mississippi-religious-vermont-least-religious-state.aspx" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.gallup.com/poll/167267/mississippi-rel...">http://www.gallup.com/poll/...
But Mickey Rooney, Zsa-Zsa Gabor, Elizabeth Taylor - how much more research do you need?
I refer to those who really only want to &quot;get&quot; married, not &quot;be&quot; married as serial spouses.