Bernie buys Rev Al a cup of coffee

"I support all your new tax ideas, and I'm really looking forward to not paying them." pic.twitter.com/YGIgbmhXVw

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 10, 2016

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

Excerpted from this brilliant essay by David Wong in Cracked magazine. 

Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you're thrilled with your life, and you're happy with your relationships. Enjoy the rest of your day, friend, this article is not for you. You're doing a great job, we're all proud of you.

#6  The World Only Cares About What It Can Get From You.

If you want to know why society seems to shun you, or why you seem to get no respect, it's because society is full of people who need things. They need houses built, they need food to eat, they need entertainment, they need fulfilling sexual relationships. 

 Either you will go about the task of seeing to those needs by learning a unique set of skills, or the world will reject you, no matter how kind, giving, and polite you are. You will be poor, you will be alone, you will be left out in the cold.

#5   The Hippies Were Wrong.

You don't have to like it. I don't like it when it rains on my birthday. It rains anyway. Clouds form and precipitation happens. People have needs and thus assign value to the people who meet them. These are simple mechanisms of the universe and they do not respond to our wishes.