6/29/2021

Republican Leaders Will Do Everything They Can to Fuck With the Infrastructure Bill

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One of the ways that the oh-so-clever take-makers on the left like to describe how Republicans always act like they are going to go along wi...
6/23/2021

Manchin and Sinema Made Promises to Their Voters That They Refuse to Keep

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After yesterday's 50-50 vote killing the For the People Act because a Republican filibuster prevented it from even being debated, let al...
6/18/2021

How a Story From a Middle Tennessee College Is Really About Our American Apocalypse (Part 2): The Mascot and the Damage Done

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(Note: It's been a while since Part 1 of this story about how two professors protesting Turning Point USA starting a student group at t...
6/16/2021

Conservatives Believe That Critical Race Theory Will Teach Our Children Too Much Truth (Part 2: Fear of a Non-White Country)

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( Part 1 concentrated on Florida's new anti-critical race theory/1619 Project rule.) The Citizens for Renewing America have a booklet ...
6/10/2021

Conservatives Believe That Critical Race Theory Will Eat Our Children (Part 1)

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Today, Thursday, in Florida (motto: "America's laboratory of backwards ass fucknuttery"), the state Board of Education voted ...
6/08/2021

The Sinking of the Bipartisanship Manchin

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It's a pretty great joke that Senator Joe Manchin, putative Democrat, has pulled on the country and, especially, on the people of his st...
6/02/2021

A Couple of Observations on the Republican War on Democracy

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Observation 1 : Most religions have a great tautological scam going: Faith means believing in God, Jesus, Allah, or another invisible sky wi...
5/31/2021

A Poem for Memorial Day

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Singing Out by Jan Barry How big would the war Memorial wall be If it listed all the names Of soldiers who died of suicide ¬– Able, Baker, C...
5/26/2021

Republicans Are the Extremists, and They Want to Blow Up the Joint

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Last week, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin "I hope Trump keeps my balls on ice so they can be reattached some day" McCarthy...
5/17/2021

I'm Losing My Capacity for Empathy Thanks to People Who Refuse to Get Vaccinated

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I want to see things through other people's eyes. I really do. I want to understand why they believe the fucked-up things they do. Those...
5/13/2021

How Public Schools Failed Black and White Students in the South By Hiding the Truth

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Ever since I heard about the Opelousas massacre of 1868, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Also called the St. Landry or S...
5/08/2021

How a Story From a Middle Tennessee College Is Really About Our American Apocalypse (Part 1)

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This isn't a hard story, but the hardest part about telling this story is where to begin. There are so many pieces, so much history, so ...
5/05/2021

Liz Cheney Demonstrates the Least You Can Do to Preserve Democracy

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Among the lies that Republicans tell themselves to justify their continued deranged, perhaps even traitorous behavior in refusing to back do...
4/27/2021

An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson Regarding His Opinions on Masks

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Dear Tucker, Can I call you "Tucker"? I don't really care because I'm sure as hell not calling you "Mr. Carlson,...