Category Archives: Politics

Let’s Follow This Mickey Mouse Jurisprudence to its Logical Conclusion and Replace the Supreme Court Justices with Nine Cartoon Characters

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Kurt Baumeister

If they want to act like cartoon characters, SCOTUS should be replaced by cartoon characters. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Andy Borowitz, Clarence Thomas, Let's make the US a theocracy with the robed justices in charge!, SCOTUS, Supreme Court | Leave a comment

Cleaning Other People’s Houses

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Judy Juanita

Cleaning houses was never what Judy Juanita was raised to do. That was for mothers, aunts, grandmothers… not her. Not a college-educated black woman. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, Politics | Tagged domestics, house cleaning, race, The Color Purple, Zora Neale Hurston | 7 Comments

‘All the Foreign Ladies’: The Case Against Saving Global Women and Girls

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Sayantani DasGupta

Why is it we think women in Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere they might wear a veil need saving? Sayantani DasGupta looks at the irony in saving women with bombs and drones. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Nicolas Kristof, RAWA.org, war | 3 Comments

Music For Maniacs

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Patrick Wensink

Patrick Wensink explores how the obscure, scuzzy garage rockers, Coachwhips, became the perfect band for George W. Bush’s 2003 Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Politics | Tagged 2003, CoaCHwhips, Freedom Fries, George W. Bush, John Dwyer, Outkast, Radiohead | 1 Comment

The Adventures of a Curmudgeon in Healthcare

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Danbert Nobacon

CALL ME ENGLISH but—, methinks ‘tis the season of the anarchist curmudgeon. Curmudgeon – (somebody who is irritable or stubborn) I know, I know. I am a US Citizen now, but remember the judge did say to bring my ideas … Continue reading →