Ich habe mit meinem Herz hämmerte

“We’re in a road movie to Berlin
Can’t drive out the way we drove in
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
And we’ll go

“We were once so close to heaven
Peter came out and gave us medals
Declaring us the nicest of the damned
Time won’t find the lost
It’ll sweep up our skeleton bones
So take the wheel and I will take the pedals

“We’re in a road movie to Berlin
Can’t drive out the way we drove in
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
And we’ll go…”

-They Might Be Giants, Flood, 1987

Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow

“When you see a bunch of people going around thinking that our president is the antichrist, you have to draw one of two conclusions: either these are racists, looking for any excuse to level the next accusation, or they’re beyond crazy. And I think beyond crazy’s a better explanation.”

“That evangelical subculture has rotted the brain of the United States of America.”

“When we talk about the Left Behind series of books…what we’re really talking about is a group of people who are resentful because they know they’ve been left behind: by modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature…”

“The rest of us are getting on with our lives, these people are standing on a hilltop waiting for the end.”