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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Tag Archives: Sean Murphy
Popped Culture : Solutions for Oncoming Political Darkness
The Weeklings editors, staff, and various contributors take turns answering the one question that matters most. Continue reading
Posted in Popped Culture
Tagged 2016 election, 28th Amendment, Crazytown, Direct Action, Elissa Schappell, Facebreak, fraud, greg olear, Hank Cherry, Jana Martin, Janet Steen, Jen kabat, Jug Bands, Kurt Baumeister, Learning Annex, NeverTrumpers, Pence, quenby moone, robert burke warren, Sean Beaudoin, Sean Murphy, social media, Sojourner Truth, Southern Poverty and Law Center, Supreme Court, Trump
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50 Bullet Points Concerning America’s Gun Psychosis
If you’re still alive, you’re not Orlando. Do something. Do anything. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2nd Amendment, America, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, bullmurph.com, democrats, Donald Trump, GOP, Gun violence, guns, Hollywood, Igor Volsky, Jim Jefferies, massacre, NRA, Obama, Omar Mateen, Orlando, Orlando Massacre, Republicans, Sean Murphy, Soma, Stanley McChrystal, The Weeklings, TS Eliot, William Carlos Williams
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On Losing Faith and Finding Myself Instead
AUGUST 30, 2002. I was in a church for the first time in forever. The church where I received the Sacrament of Confirmation. The church where my parents celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The church where my sister was … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Dostoyevsky, faith, Kurt Vonnegut, memoir, Milan Kundera, Organized Religion, Sean Murphy, Ursula K. LeGuin
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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
Question: What’s a writer to do in an era where memoirs are assumed to be fictional and novels are, increasingly, considered thinly-veiled cris de coeur? Answer: Deny Everything. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Arts
Tagged Anthony Burgess, david foster wallace, fiction, james frey, Jonathan Yardley, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Theory, memoir, Milan Kundera, Not To Mention a Nice Life, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone, Sean Murphy, The Things They Carried, The Weeklings, Tim O'Brien
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The 50 Greatest Hockey Enforcer Names of All Time
While debate can rage about the role of fighting in hockey, there is no doubt that the history of hockey enforcing has produced names that would do Shakespeare, Dickens and Nabokov proud. Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged Bill Clement, Dale Hunter, Darren Van Impe, Derek Boogaard, Enforcer, Garth Butcher, Gary Thorne, Goon, hockey, Jeff Beukeboom, Jim Playfair, Lindy Ruff, Marty McSorley, Murray Craven, NHL, Sean Murphy, Shane Churla, Stu Grimson, The Code, The Grim Reaper, Tie Domi, Tony Twist
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April 15, 1985: The Fight
For the last 30 years, I’ve regarded Hagler/Hearns the way oral poets preserved the ancient stories: I’ve remembered it, replayed it and above all, celebrated it. Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged 1980's, April 15 1985, Best sporting event, boxing, Brazil, Joga Bonito, Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Sean Murphy, Socrates, Sugar Ray Leonard, The Fight, Thomas Hearns
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In Defense of Stephen King
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged 'Salem's Lot, Christine, Cujo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Bloom, High-brow, It, Low-brow, Rolling Stone, Sean Murphy, Stephen King, The Stand
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