Waiting For Black Jesus
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Political Compass Time, 2016 Edition!
It’s May, so, once again, it’s time to check the oil on just where I stand on the Political Compass: Economic Left/Right: -9.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31 Practically the same score, three years in a row! ...
Don’t Care Who’s Watching When We Tearing It Up
The only thing I know of Kesha's music is this amazing piece, but I've heard a considerable amount about her case, and it's appalling. The judge said that her "instinct is to do the commercially reasonable thing," because Sony...
Resolutions
I made only one official New Year's resolution last year, which was to lose 30 pounds. Considering the time-worn tradition of making such laughable resolutions and not following through, I figured I'd aim high. It took me until...
Je suis un Occidental blanc privilégiée
It's taken me a few days to coalesce my thoughts about the attacks in Paris, but in writing this I was really waiting for the inevitable reaction. Unfortunately, I could have written this days, or even months ago, and it would...
Terrorists Strike on American Soil
Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for making a hoax bomb. That's the official reason for his arrest. But that's not why he was arrested. The why of why he was arrested is a little more complicated, but it boils down pretty succinctly...
The Decision-Making Process
One of my friends asked me recently "what makes you such a liberal?" This was in response to a discussion we were having about capital punishment. It was an honest question that deserved an honest answer. I've had a few...
Pretty Good Week, Right?
Weeks like this don't come along very often. Victory after victory after victory, with barely enough time to breathe in between, and most of them coming from a recently suspect Supreme Court. States don't have to allow hate...
Political Compass Time!
It's May, so it's time to check the oil on just where I stand on the Political Compass: Economic Left/Right: -9.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.46 Basically the same as last year, so just as cranky and disaffected as...
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...
Get on it, Science.
An argument I've been making for a few years now is about a certain piece of technology that we should have by now but don't. It's 2015, and we've launched a handful of human beings toward the moon and brought them back,...
Review: Songs of Innocence
"Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd" - William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697) Anyone who spent more than 10 minutes with me for the two decades between 1992 and 2012 knew, without a doubt, that I was a U2...