As is often the case at the beginning of the school year, even secondhand and samizdat copies of textbooks become difficult to acquire. But if someone can score me a copy of the apparently very august Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, I promise I'll...
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In comparative perspective.
In the previous post, I wrote: [W]hy do people insist that Breaking Bad is a realistic portrayal of the perils of the methamphetamine trade? Because of scenes like what I’ll.
Every time I listen to the old Tex Williams song "The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down," I always think the relevant politicians are modern Republicans. The hypocrisy seems so perfect. I prefer the Hank Thompson version of the song.
It reads like I actually did: On screen, when two characters or objects exist in relationship to each other, an imaginary axis between them constitutes the 180º line or line.
I post a link to this sketch from Mr. Show a little too often, but only because it's so regularly germane: More and more, I read conservatives and find myself.
This this came up in comments, but as I've said before it's worth making it clear that rape exceptions to abortion laws don't actually make any sense. Carmon and Marcotte are excellent on this, but rape exceptions are illogical and don't provide any real protection...
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg summarize the problems with journalists writing history: We have to fight mediocrity as well as plagiarism – the two are more closely related than you.
Is zero low enough?
I'm tempted to say that Pareene should have submitted this to Politico or Fred Hiatt as a kind of Sokal Hoax. But what makes it brilliant satire is that once you've switched the partisan context there's no chance that anyone would take it seriously, even...
For now anyway. A flash poll in Missouri showed that despite Todd Akin's insane statements about rape, he still leads Claire McCaskill 45-44, according to a poll by Public Policy.
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before.