Two Stories About Race
Affirmative Action So the Supreme Court avoided a definitive ruling on affirmative action this week. Several of the justices made it clear though that things need to change. What seems to be in the...
Daily Archive: June 25, 2013
Let’s just all be glad it wasn’t a SCOTUS decision about a rap album…
Yeah, so here’s a quick message to white politicians everywhere: Racial epithets actually sound waaaaay worse when you say them out loud than they do when you say them silently in your head. Really...
The Pick-Up Apologist: Kickstarter, Reddit, The Awl, and The Real Problem With Seduction Culture
Last night a reader forwarded me The Awl’s interview of Ken Hoinsky by Maria Bustillos. To be honest, I hadn’t intended to chime in on this story when I first came across it via...
Circling the Drain in the NSA Surveillance Debate
(The middle section of this post is a thorough re-statement and critique of David Simon’s argument that their are few “legitimate” concerns that can be raised regarding the NSA’s collection of metadata and web...
The Best Video Game Ever: “Super Metroid”
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on the Best Video Games Ever. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, please click here. At the proper beginning...
Big Tuesday 2013
We got the Voting Rights Act case today, but not same-sex marriage. Please join the discussion at NaPP!
Stupid Tuesday questions, “White” edition
I am fond of Julie Delpy. I have, of course, never met Julie Delpy. I have never been to France (more’s the pity) and life has sadly not afforded me opportunities to meet glamorous French actresses any more than American ones. For all I know, Julie Delpy may be utterly horrid in real life. But I doubt it. She has always seemed so sane and lovely in interviews. She radiates intelligence and a sense of humor about herself. If she’s […]
Gooses and Ganders
New documents show that the IRS’s targeting of 501(c)(4) applicants was more widespread than initially reported: “Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee released 15 lists of terms that the IRS agency used...
