Am I better off now than I was four years ago? Well, let’s see. At this time four years ago I was living in Hanoi watching the American economy implode while wondering what kind of country I’d be coming home to. Watching as the country inched towards the brink of a meltdown that would have […]
Category Archives: politics
Pardon me if I seem to be in a bad mood…
…but I’m rather frustrated at the outcome of the North Carolina Amendment One vote. It’s always lovely to see that 61% of the voters in a state think you’re such a threat to civilization that they have to enshrine your inequality in their state constitution. I just love being reminded that I’m a second class […]
I don’t think I want to live on this planet anymore
Kim Kardashian’s political ambitions are being treated as if they’re a real thing. You might as well just shoot me now, I don’t think I can live in a world where Kim Kardashian’s political ambitions are taken remotely seriously, even if it is just Huffington Post that’s taking them seriously. We’re talking about a woman […]
This does not compute
One recurring theme in the fight against providing coverage for birth control, is the idea that sex is for recreation and insurance should not cover someone’s recreational activities. Now, theoretically, I can understand the logic behind that even though I think that it’s a bad argument for a myriad of public policy reasons, not the […]
Okay, so this Scumbag Scalia meme isn’t an entirely accurate representation of Scalia’s tl;dr on the healthcare law or of his lengthy opinions, but it is an accurate representation of how I feel about having to read his lengthy dissents. And truthiness is what matters, right?
A concise history of black-white relations in the U.S.A. (don’t know the original source, stolen from a poster on Fark.com)