Author: DressToKILT

Checking My Political Compass

There's this neat website I found around a decade ago called the Political Compass. It's basically a short test with a number of rather generic questions about your views on various economic and social issues. It's short -...

Politics

Political Cartoons

I'm a big fan of editorial cartoons, both as an artform and as a medium for political commentary. I would have to point to a number of political cartoonists that, in 1, 3, 4 or even 8 panels, have helped shape my political...

Politics

Is it safe to come out now?

Back just before the election (October 26th, to be exact), one of my favorite political cartoonists, Matt Bors, published this cartoon: Matt was running a Kickstarter to raise money for an upcoming book at the time, and one of...

Culture

Sorry, I can’t control myself. You’ll just have to go.

Iowa's Supreme Court earned a lot of respect when it ruled that same-sex marriage was legal and denying it was discriminatory. However, they have decided to balance themselves out with a completely baffling ruling: Your boss...

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Sure, let’s try to legislate the hate away.

Something Bad Has Happened, and therefore, the Westboro Baptist Church has announced that they will picket the funerals of those who died. This is what they do these days, their entire purpose. Exploit tragedy in the crassest...

Culture

Knowing the unknowable

A friend of a friend on Facebook said "It's an unexplainable and senseless act of violence" in regards to yet another massacre. I really detest that sentiment. My response was this: No, it is explainable. We just don't have...

Culture

“I said ya shouldn’t have worn that dress…”

Anne Hathaway recently had the misfortune of being a woman in public, in case you hadn't heard from every news outlet in America. As she exited a limo at an event for her new movie, someone with a camera found himself with a...

Mission Statement

This is the story so far…

From 2005 to around 2010 I blogged fairly regularly, first on my now-defunct LiveJournal, and then on a more politically-centered WordPress site. Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter came along and wrecked up the joint. All of...