PSYCH!!! This post is not about the exploited tall blue cat-people who have braid-sex and the nice white man who saves them. HA HA!! Too late to click away now!!! This post is about internet avatars. Do you have one? What is it? Why'd you choose...
Month: July 2014
Hope you all aren't too torn up by the demise of Richard Mellon Scaife. Hard to lose such a good and kindly citizen. Also: Richard Mellon Scaife died on July.
To the Republican Party, this is apparently the same question as "are you an affluent white suburbanite?"
Mostly, this is a good rundown of reactions to the Harris decision. In particular the piece by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein and the Joshua Freeman essay get at one key issue--that the work of women and especially poor women is consistently undervalued in our...
The whites of Murrieta, California sure know how to celebrate July 4. They kick it old school, through expressions of white supremacy. MURRIETA, Calif. — Suddenly, this city in the.
Many smart people are, for obvious reasons, making fun of the latest round of Young Reactionaries With Exciting New Ideas. (You will be thrilled to learn that their plans for.
This July 4, remember the true cost of freedom: These wild, towering conflagrations garnered support at the beginning of the twentieth century from an unlikely quarter: the national movement for a Safe and Sane Fourth of July. In 1903, the year that the Journal of...
My latest at the Diplomat thinks through some of the implications of cruise missile diffusion in Southeast Asia: Vietnam already has multiple platforms available for the deployment of cruise missiles. Su-30MKs can.
The discussion about the Hobby Lobby ruling has me wondering if the court has all but come out and said that the beliefs of believers carry more weight more than.
The Supreme Court has granted an injunction to Wheaton College, which argued that even having to fill out a form to exempt itself from the contraceptive coverage requirement violates its RFRA rights. The dissent, by Sotomayor and joined by Ginsburg and Kagan, notes what should...
You will be highly unsurprised that Damon Linker has once again done his "liberalism, properly understood, compels agreeing with conservatives" routine: The Supreme Court's 5–4 decision in the Hobby Lobby.
Hobby Lobby edition.