Whenever we make progress, it’s always long overdue. We look back at things like slavery or denying women the vote and they seem like parts of the same stubborn, self serving blindness. From where we stand now, reading history feels like watching a small group of crotchety old men who just can’t get with the […]
Read more "Smart Voting: A Put Up or Shut Up Approach"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"If a leader tells us they were elected with 100% of the vote, we know they’re lying. There would be no such thing as an election if people could agree completely on anything as important as political leadership. Most of us can’t agree on pizza toppings in a room of eight people. Two hundred and […]
Read more "Opening the Vote"The modern debates about police brutality are nowhere close to new. The only thing that’s new about them is how utterly undeniable it is that this brutality is happening as often and as severely as people have been shouting about from the inception of the police as an institution. “Police officers are the greatest scoundrels […]
Read more "Prove It"Imagine that for your whole life you’ve been in classes for people with special needs. You’ve always found the lessons to be a little patronizing, but your teachers have assured you that’s the fault of a bad attitude on your part. These classes are consistently rosy and optimistic in their messages, but the palpable special […]
Read more "You Are Not An Idiot"
Princess Fantastic 