So here’s the thing about the freedom of speech; it’s an easy win. It’s the first amendment, the one that even those assholes who can’t find Canada on a map can tell you they know. What’s left to say about it that we don’t already know? And even if we can find some nugget of […]
Read more "The Freedom to Lie"So let me start off by saying I’m a fan of Kanye West, or Jeezy or Je. If I could figure out what name he wants to be called by, I’d use that one, but since I’m more worried about you knowing who I’m talking about right now, we’ll stick with Kanye. Ever since he […]
Read more "Kanye and Donald, Sitting in a Tree…"So I was thinking about this Israel Hammas thing and isn’t it accurate to say that a huge part of the conflict is built into the idea of how “the nation” is going to work as a thing? Like you go, Israel is a nation for exiled Jews. Okay. But wait, so is there a […]
Read more "Hummuna Hummuna Hammas"There’s no easy way to talk about who Edward Bernays is, much less to learn about him for the first time. He’s the kind of insufferable cunt we can normally only dream of. None of us really have a problem with accusing rich people of snobbery, or suggesting that they’ve hijacked politics and popular culture […]
Read more "There’s No Such Thing As Propaganda, With Edward Bernays"People who are furious tend to have a very suspicious problem. People are generally as upset as they are willing to try and change whatever is upsetting them, but people who are furious tend to be willing to do one thing and one thing only: show us that they’re angry, usually by resorting to physical […]
Read more "Don’t Get Mad. Get a Better System (Ask Me How)"It’s always fun to look at the history of “the future” as an idea. In the 1950’s the future was made out of atomic gadgets. By the 90’s the future seemed to be made entirely out of neon and odd fitting blazers. And really ever since Jules Verne first started popularizing sci-fi machinery with books […]
Read more "It’s a Great Time to be Alive: The Monopoly Man Edition"Welcome. Two things are true that I need you to know so that we can get cooking here. 1) Islamic fundamentalism has some serious problems with the way it handles women and personal freedom. 2) The United States created it. That’s not all we’re going to talk about, but for us to set sail we […]
Read more "Get Loud: A People’s Guide to Speaking in Actions"At the time of this writing, Russia has invaded Ukraine. They’ve gotten their asses kicked pretty soundly up to this point, scaling back their full scale take over plans to a region in eatern Ukraine known as the Donbass. Their eyes got a little too big for their stomachs, it truns out. And even now, […]
Read more "The First Real Election"You have a farm. Things are going pretty well. Your ugly kids have plenty to eat and the land is so fertile you think it might be Catholic. The days are pretty, the work is satisfying. What more could you want? But just as you’re about to pluck your suspenders about your good fortune….BAM locusts, […]
Read more "The New Bomb"I was doing some research on corruption in professional boxing and I came across a congressional hearing on the subject that was done in 1993. It involves a pretty interesting collection of people. John McCain was there. Former world champions Buddy McGirt and Iran Barkley were there. And so was a funny little muddle named […]
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