Category: Politics
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Third Choice
Reacting to the Democratic National Convention, and reconsidering what it means to truly reject cynicism.
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Hail to the Chaff
It’s no exaggeration to say that Trump is a genuine threat to American democracy. But I think a lot of us are responding in the worst possible ways.
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E Pluribus Sputum
A begrudging defense of US democracy and learning to move forward in unity with a bunch of bigoted morons.
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Cyber-Hot Take Strike Force 2017: The Reckoning
Reports from an alternate timeline where the sky’s the color of a television tuned to a dead channel.
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Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
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So Much Effort
A silly game from Nintendo raises the eternal question: why do LGBT types always make such a fuss every time they’re deliberately and actively excluded?
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Homophobish
A year-old prose fart on Slate perfectly illustrates the difference between marriage equality and “gay marriage,” and exactly why it’s an important distinction.
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Thoughtcrimes for $1000
What is, “A bullshit false equivalence that reduces the push for genuine equality to nothing more than wishy-washy moral relativism,” Alex?
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The Party of the First Part
The tragic hilarity that results when people take the term “social contract” too literally
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A Country Boy Can Survive
on a multi-million dollar multimedia and merchandising agreement. A bit of faux-populism is more valuable than any number of duck calls.
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Pity the Poor Oppressed Majority
How do you separate the art from the artist when the artist is such a flatulating asshole? Also: why the hypocrisy that makes me so angry might actually be a harbinger of oncoming poetic justice.
