Category: Politics

Little Space Tate
You can’t spell “Unctuous toadies Giving up any semblance of integrity and Abdicating any responsibility to their students and their country” without UGA!

Third Choice
Reacting to the Democratic National Convention, and reconsidering what it means to truly reject cynicism.


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.

E Pluribus Sputum
A begrudging defense of US democracy and learning to move forward in unity with a bunch of bigoted morons.
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.
Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
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?
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.
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?
The Party of the First Part
The tragic hilarity that results when people take the term “social contract” too literally





