Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Current Events
Fuck Your Breath: Casualties of the Deadly Intersection of Black and Blue
Is it open season on African-Americans at U.S. police departments? Continue reading
No One Would Riot for Less: the UK General Election, “Shy Tories” and the Eating of Lord Ashdown’s Hat
The unexpected victory of David Cameron’s Conservatives in the UK election is the British version of the Bush win in 2004. Philip Marsh explains. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged Conservatives, David Cameron, Prime Minister, Riots, UK election
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A Ghost Tour of Baltimore’s Riots
Baltimore is like no other city. Baltimore is like too many other cities. It is not just a city that has fostered inequality, but one founded upon it, upon a Land of Pleasant Living forged through violence and intimidation. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged B&O Railroad, Baltimore, Baltimore riots, ghosts, Orioles, Pratt Street Riot
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Bigger Than Jesus: The Gospel of U2, Leonard Cohen, and Sufjan Stevens
Robert Burke Warren goes deep into his own story to talk about the persistence of God in pop, and how and why non-believers and doubting Thomases still go for it. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Religion, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Bono, carrie and lowell, fleshtones, God, i'm your man, Jesus, Leonard Cohen, religion, robert burke warren, shalom fellowship, Sufjan Stevens, the edge, u2
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This Law Would End the Antivaxx Movement Forever
A modest proposal on vaccines. Continue reading
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Tagged antivaxxers, diphtheria, Jehovah's WItnesses, measles, religion, Science
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Sorry, Charlie
Everyone, it seems, opposes censorship until it’s their sacred cow being smacked around; anyone can endorse artists’ rights until it’s their ass in the crosshairs. Free speech is—and must be—an all-or-nothing proposition. Continue reading
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Tagged America, Censorship, Charlie Hebdo, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, East, Free Speech, Liberal, Paris, religion, Salman Rushdie, Sean Murphy, West
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You Are Not a Hopeless Case: A Million Easy Steps to a Beautiful You
A pretty face opens doors but will never fully win the so-called race against time. Janet Steen writes on self-criticism, scrutiny, and letting time do its thing. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Charlotte Rampling, Dove soap, facelifts, Janet Steen, Liv Ullmann, Peter Lindbergh
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