Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
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on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025https://apnews.com/article/jillian-lauren-shriner-weezer-scott-1e3a0a27298d29bd37635349ae4e5b9e
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025We’re gonna need a link for that.- on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Over at Substack, Thom Hartmann points out that ordering the DoJ to investigate truth tellers is at the very l…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Doubly so, if one of the judges in charge of the case rules that alternative evidence is inadmissable.
on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarEh, I’m not a fan of tariffs at all. If the other guy is shooting himself in the foot, why join him? Tariffs s…on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025JayBird: the dance where someone asks for evidence and then, when it’s provided, they say “that’s not conclusi…
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How Should Democrats Handle Student Loan Payments90 Comments
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Thursday Throughput: The Boys Are All Right Fertility Edition100 Comments
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The Politics of Survival: Putting Yourself in a Box223 Comments
The Lost Art of Book Learning10 Comments
On Writing of Wrongs40 Comments
Game of Thrones: Little People, Big World60 Comments
HMMMMMM!!!!! It seems the wonderful innovation of New Coke has been dropped down the memory hole. Seems hinky to me.Report
Coffee is an amazing thing. On that note, have you ever examined the Starbucks logo? Given that it’s a mermaid with a divided tail, isn’t the part of the logo immediately below what we can see kind of, uh, pornographic?Report
I stopped drinking soda last year and haven’t missed it but the new sierra mist designs look an advertisement for a horror movie.Report