Month: August 2014
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Michael Brown/Ferguson Shooting FAQ
“A cop murdered a kid and his department is trying to cover up for him.”
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How to Raise Independent-Minded Daughters
“My father valued my brain, and let me see that he valued it.”
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How Big Music Labels Fake Indie Cred
“When I can’t figure out who the label really is I upload it to YouTube, then wait for one of the big 3 labels to claim their content.”
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Cornel West on The Obama Presidency
“He’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair.”
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This Is The Police State
“My rights aren’t niceties too delicate for the real world. ”
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The Cicero Race Riot of 1951
In 1951, 4000 white protesters attacked a building a black couple was going to move into.
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Irish Hypocrisy on Abortion
“Irish people are willing to sacrifice the most vulnerable women so they can feel pure and virtuous without sacrificing anything themselves.”
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Hannah Goff on Body Autonomy
“Awarding a pregnant person less rights to their body than a corpse.”
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Why Clowns Are Scary
“There’s something elementally unnerving about the sort of unrestrained jouissance that clowns represent.”
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How Christian Monks Saved Beowulf
“This point cannot be stressed enough: the pagans did not write things down.”