Month: April 2015
It seems that if hipsters really want to be all steampunk, they might as well bring back acquaintance cards and other routines of 19th century versions of courting. Surely someone has done this. Think
I can’t think of a better way to win friends on social than to write an article in which I bag on Louie and defend beat cops: As any television critic will tell you, there are two constants whe
Over the years, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been subjected to accusations regarding so many fake “scandals” that it’s easy to dismiss further claims of impropriety and corruption a
Julia Azari — who has written a very valuable recent book on the subject — has a useful corrective to my too-glib dismissal of the concept of mandates: Mandates are essentially stories tha
In 1967, a company was giving bus tours of the Haight for squares wondering what this whole hippie thing was about. Here’s a story and some photos taken on one of these tours by a reporter inter
Here’s a John C. Wright-proportioned take on the Rabid Puppies by Philip Sandifer. This is an important take on rape jokes; I think they can be funny so long as they take on rapists and rape cu
Nice that participating in a protest to get your state to accept the provisions of the Affordable Care Act gets one in seriously hot water at the University of Georgia.
Updated below Denialism, by which I mean the denial or unwarranted minimization of a disturbing reality, usually comes in several forms. For example, Holocaust denialism covers a spectrum of arguments
- Everything is Fine!
- William Barr is a disgusting fascist pig who makes John Mitchell look like Louis Brandeis
- This Day in Labor History: September 17, 1868
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs