Category: Politics
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Political Compass Time!
2015 Political Compass results
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Game Misconduct
I think it’s safe to say at this point that sports hasn’t been exactly charitable to women, and that has been put on display time and time again recently. Yet for all the many high profile cases where various leagues and teams have completely failed women and their growing female fan bases, we tend to…
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Moving right along (left along? whatever)…
2014 Political Compass results
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Checking My Political Compass
2013 Political Compass results
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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 ideology. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and for editorial…
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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 the donors, someone he considered a friend, retracted his $250 donation and cut off contact over…
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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 way possible. They travel the country to use any tragedy to blast their message that their god most…