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Iris the radical?
I recently enjoyed the company of one of my Many Tens of Loyal Readers™ over dinner and cocktails. At one point during our wide-ranging conversation, he said to me: “You are a radical.” Not a “radical...
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PALACE FILM REVIEW: Elysium.
[NOTE: MILD SPOILERS AHEAD.] I admit it: I am a sucker for a good Hollywood blockbuster. No nuanced scab-picking at emotional scars or English subtitles for me: I am in the movie market strictly for...
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How to up your blog’s hit count on the government dime, Part Deux.
More than a year ago we wrote about a report on a trove of documents obtained from the Department of Homeland Security Theatre™ via a law suit by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The...
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Fun, free and low-cost ways to meaningfully celebrate Veterans Day.
In the U.S., today is Veterans Day. I have a friend—let’s call him “Mike,” because that is his name—who served as an Army Ranger in the Vietnam War. Mike is a sweetheart who hails from Michigan and now...
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R.I.P. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 1918 – 2013
I will never forget where I was the moment I learned that Nelson Mandela died. This was enemy territory, at an elite bar in DC—a stone’s throw from the White House, the scene of countless obscene...
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What if I told you…
…that both political parties work for the same corporations. There goes Morpheus again, always ‘splaining shit like it is. I fucking love The Matrix. [h/t SJ]
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Economixcomix.
I’ve written about the horrors of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement before, but man, I’m just a piker. This d00d takes it to a whole other level: explaining our political...
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Primo mockery via Media Matters.
In a post at Media Matters entitled This Pundit’s 10 Rules For Right-Wing Fight Club Has 11 Rules (Or Maybe 14): Ben Shapiro Needs An Editor, one Hannah Groch-Begley takes a page from the Palace...
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BREAKING: Alan Grayson HEARTS Iris Vander Pluym, is still awesome.
Your Humble Monarch™ was cordially invited to a reception (read: fundraiser) Friday night for Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida. Held at the home of Bob Fertik and Antonia Stolper near Union Square,...
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Conservatism kills.
A new video by some outfit called the Agenda Project Action Fund entitled Republican Cuts Kill is the kind of thing we’d like to see a lot more of. It takes the silly Ebola paranoia emanating from the...
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Things I would wish upon my enemies.
A friend on Facebook posted this delightful chart, entitled “Things I would wish upon my enemies.” Well done, DOGHOUSEDIARIES! Even the occasional occurrence of such plagues is annoying as fuck-all....
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MOAR things I would wish upon my enemies.
Loyal Readers™ will surely recall my post last month about things I would wish upon my enemies. The point of the exercise was that although the original meme was quite good, for the enemies of the...
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The art of awkward conversation.
[CONTENT NOTE: racism/White Supremacy, xenophobia (FROM AN IMMIGRANT…), fat shaming, food policing, general assholery.] I mentioned recently that I had been traveling through the region of the country...
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Good morning, comrades.
Abby Martin really just skims the surface here, but it’s enough to make the point: the United States government has always been in the business of crushing leftism, here and abroad, and never hesitates...
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Conservative atheists: get outta mah tent.
I have a new post up at Freethought Blogs today about American Atheists, conservative atheists, CPAC and Dave Silverman. In case you are blissfully unaware, Mr. Silverman is the conservative president...
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Jerry Coyne at BHA 2016—Part 1: YES!
In February Jerry Coyne delivered the British Humanist Association’s annual Darwin Day Lecture in London. For those unfamiliar, Coyne is an evolutionary biologist, a professor emeritus at the...
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