(This being another one of those visual rhetoric posts.) At this point my point should be staring you in the face: the mid-season finale of Breaking Bad is all about staring and what it means to stare. Staring can signify the acquisition of knowledge (the...
Month: September 2012
Angus Johnston with a provocative post commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. First, the girls who were killed that day weren’t small children..
The whole thing is essential reading, but a teaser: But if the strike has been bad for Democratic presidential politics, it may ultimately be good for Democratic education policy, which.
Katie Billotte rightfully exposes the decline of the liberal arts in higher education as an important facet of the conservative war on anything institution in this country that might create free-thinking people. Education is a political act. For over half a century, the conservative movement...
We at LGM HQ found this rather befuddling: Zoom in, and you'll note that one of our favorite lefty (semi?) trolls used the same IP as the glorious Anony-Jen-Bob. We've.
Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers--if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. If those.
Malcolm Harris is convinced that Breaking Bad's Walter White is yet another example of the White Savior, i.e. The white guy who enters a world supposedly beneath him where he doesn’t belong yet nonetheless triumphs over the inhabitants is older than talkies. TV Tropes calls...
I have a piece on this week's NDAA ruling up. The optimistic title isn't mine -- alas, I suspect that as in most cases where the legislative and executive branches.
More from Mitt: And: And: And: I couldn't resist coining the phrase "tragedy bump," but I should've. That said, I'm sure I missed some from the previous thread, so feel.
Interesting article on India, Indian-Americans, and the GOP: Take a close look at the draft platform that Politico discovered on the Republican National Committee's website on Friday, and you'll see that the Republican party arguably lavishes more praise on India than on any country mentioned...
For the reasons Jazayerli argues in detail, the decision to shut down Strasburg seems obviously stupid to me. It's certainly good that we're no longer in the era when Dusty.
Shorter Verbatim the clown in Kansas who is seriously considering a request to have Obama removed from the ballot: "I don't think it's a frivolous objection." But remember, as Ann.