Hi. Welcome to the world you live in. I get it. I really do. You’ve arrived into adulthood and you’re like, “What?!? The planet is getting warmer and warmer and may die?” Or “What?!? Gay people can’t get married? What the fuck?!?” Or “What?!? Cops are killing black people and this is actually a thing?!?” And then you look at me … Read More
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Missing The Point
The award goes to Gersh Kuntzman of the New York Daily News for writing this: No disrespect to the jury in the Erin Andrews case, but I can’t breathe. The Fox Sports reporter just got a $55 million award for the pain and suffering of being videotaped naked in a Nashville hotel room in 2008. Fifty five million dollars because people … Read More
International Women’s Day
Props to Google for today’s Google Doodle: Unlike past women’s day doodles, this doesn’t look at achievements from the past, but at the achievements to come. The theme for this year is gender parity. You may not think this is a problem here in the United States, and comparatively, you would be right. The United States is ranked 20th, which is … Read More
Trump The Unifier
At last night’s Super Tuesday presser, Trump insisted that he was a “unifier”, adding that being a unifier to his resume may surprise some people, and “believe me”. But… VALDOSTA, Ga. — There are different accounts of who made the decision to eject approximately 30 black students who say they were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s … Read More
Is Trump Knowingly Lying About His Immigration Position?
Mmmmmaybe. There’s a rumor going around, encouraged in no small part by this article, to the effect that Trump was talking off-the-record with a New York Times reporter, and what he said called into question whether he would stand by his views on immigration: Trump visited the paper’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, Jan. 5, part of a round of editorial board … Read More
Oscar Predictions 2016
I don’t care a lot this year, mostly because “The Revenent” will take many awards, and while I liked the movie, I wasn’t blown away and I didn’t care for DiCaprio. “The Revenent” will win Best Movie, Best Actor (DiCaprio), and Best Director. Best Actress will be Bree Larson for “Room” (a fantastic movie). Best Supporting Actor will be Sylvester … Read More
Hamilton on the Appointment of Justices to the Supreme Court
[The President] shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the … Read More
Hamilton in 7 Minutes (A Cappella and A Bit Whiter Than Usual)
0:00 – Alexander Hamilton 0:30 – My Shot 0:41 – The Story of Tonight 0:49 – The Schuyler Sisters 1:08 – You’ll Be Back 1:30 – Right Hand Man 1:43 – Helpless 2:00 – Satisfied 2:14 – Wait For It 2:29 – Ten Duel Commandments 2:40 – That Would Be Enough 2:57 – Guns and Ships 3:31 – Yorktown (The … Read More
Oh, Give It A Rest, White People
The Guardian reports: The NFL has been accused of various misdemeanours down the years, from ignoring head trauma to failing to control its players’ off the field activities. Now we can add another problem to the list: allowing hate speech to be disseminated during the Super Bowl via the medium of song and dance. That, at least, is the view … Read More
Backfire
This is unusual and uplifting: A grand jury convened to investigate whether a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic had sold the organs of aborted fetuses on Monday cleared the clinic and instead indicted the undercover videographers behind the allegations, surprising the officials who called for the probe and delighting supporters of the women’s health organization. The Harris County grand jury indicted … Read More
The Funny Thing About Abusive Relationships
The number of women in stand-up comedy who are coming out as being victims of abuse is alarming. This is a must-read article. An excerpt: The experience is certainly not monolithic, but for many women who write and perform comedy, choosing this career path involves the cultivation of a chitinous exoskeleton, involuntary or not. It’s hard not to let it … Read More
Original Intent
From The New Yorker: December 5, 1791 James Madison House of Representatives Dear James, How is it almost 1792?! Quick question on the right to bear arms thing in your “Bill of Rights”—the wording and punctuation are slightly confusing. Did you mean that the right of the people serving in the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be … Read More
What The Tamir Rice Incident Reveals About Open Carry Gun Laws
So much yes from Charles Pierce in Esquire: There certainly is no point in emphasizing the damn irony that Ohio is an “open carry” state so, even if the cops assumed Rice was 18, and they also assumed his gun was real, they had no cause even to stop him, let alone open fire. Listen to the spiel that Wayne … Read More