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I read a thoroughly entertaining and engaging essay by Matt Evans for The Morning News on the legend of Frances Farmer during one of my breaks from work this morning and was struck by how often tragic fantasies obscure what I feel are the grounded yet infinitely more compelling real-life tragedies.
Responding to a 15-year-old’s temper tantrum to her friends on Facebook by sputtering and rambling for eight minutes and shooting a laptop with the hope that the whole world will see it and she’ll become embarrassed and ashamed.
Who’s the child here?
What a big man. A+ for bullying here, Daddy-O. Wonder where she […]
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There was quite a bit of hullabaloo this week about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision not to renew their donation to Planned Parenthood, bowing to pressure from far-right groups and anti-abortion activists.
The level of shouting from both sides was inversely proportional to the amount of money that at first glance […]
In one of his many blog posts about the troubling dichotomy between Ron Paul the public figure and Ron Paul the guy who let the craziest shit ever be printed under his name, The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates (himself a historian) wrote the following:
It is often said that Americans aren’t interested in history, but I […]
Rev. Alan Rudnick, a local figure and blogger for the Times Union, shared a spoken word video called “Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus” from fellow preacher Jefferson Bethke.
Though many will jump on this bandwagon of, “Yeah, we hate religion too… but […]
I expect a lot of debate over whether this guy is crazy or simply playing it. My vote is for the latter. He’s too concise, specific, and absolutely dead on with his use of absurdity as satire for this to be crazy. Particularly the bit about ponies, which is actually almost verbatim the talking […]
When the Penn State scandal broke several months ago and the depth of the cover-up was revealed, the cries of outrage were […]
The fact is if I become your nominee we will make the key test very simple – food stamps versus paychecks. Obama is the best food stamp president in American history. More people are on food stamps today because of Obama’s policies than ever in history. […]
Okay, firstly, start the video at the :18 second mark. I want you to get a load of the guy who gets a kiss on the head from the adorable girl sitting next to him but can’t be bothered to take his eyes off the image of himself on the JumboTron.
Then, a few […]
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