Day: April 27, 2010

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For Pop Culture Blogging

Will April 27, 2010

Great essay from Alyssa Rosenberg on pop culture criticism:

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The Establishment, Still Doing Its Thing

David Schaengold April 27, 2010

While the difference between Comedy Central’s treatment of Muhammad and every other religious figure is certainly striking,...

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Free Speech and Killing Kittens

Will April 27, 2010

Here’s a provocative post from Stanley Fish: To anyone who has been following First Amendment jurisprudence in...

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Pot Culture Watch

Jason Kuznicki April 27, 2010

I ride the DC Metro to work. Sometimes people sit next to me who smell like pot....

Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Eh, it's fixing the problems you can talk about instead of the problems you can't talk about. And, a…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Having a philosophy background, I'm sure you've thought a lot about language and thought (the house…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The good news is that the article itself goes back to the good term: Department data shows nearly ha…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The Newsweek article talks about stuff from 2023. But, hey. People make mistakes. Does the governmen…
Jaybird in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025My goodness. Is there footage of the event? We should be able to determine whether this was a case o…
Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Elected representatives who have their constituents removed by force because they don’t like what th…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Commenters temporarily experiencing shitposting?