Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Mission Creep and Opposite the Editors Edition
The dangers of mission creep in push for police reform, who watches the opinion section watchers of the New York Times, and stats that aren’t helpful.
Monthly Archive: June 2020
Sunday Morning! “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Music writing as autobiography, poetry, & survival. Seriously, read “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib right the hell now.
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 10: The 2010s
And here we are. After ten long weeks I have reached the end of this series on my favorite films from each year in the last hundred years of cinema.
The Time Mike Pence Went On An Ayahuasca-Fueled Vision Quest
The following story is meant to be humorous, and is not intended to represent the real-life Mike Pence. As far as we know his face has never, in fact, turned into a liquid he...
Saturday Spins: James Gang and Joe Walsh
Before he was the yin to Don Felder’s yang in The Eagles, Joe Walsh was a member of an extremely underrated trio, James Gang.
Does Anyone Owe Colin Kaepernick An Apology?
That depends on a few things: What did you think and do then, what do you think and do now, and what has changed in the meantime.
Derek Chauvin’s Charges, Explained
The news that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison elevated the charge against Derek Chauvin to second degree murder for the death of George Floyd brought mixed reactions. For some it was satisfactory; for others...
Ahmaud Arbery Preliminary Hearing: “He ran until he couldn’t run anymore”
However bad you think that video was, the facts coming out of the preliminary hearing for the McMichael’s charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery are worse
Integralists: America’s Would-be Theocrats
If Integralism sounds like fascism, well, that’s because it sounds like fascism. Integralists should be treated as such, as well as its advocates
Mini-Troughput: The HCQ, Hydroxychloroquine Reloaded
If-and I stress that it is still if-this data turn out to be garbage, I can not overstate what a disservice this is to science. I really hope it turns out to be a big misunderstanding.
Farewell, Mr. King. Please Let the Door Hit You In The Backside
The defeat was most likely the final political blow to one of the nation’s most divisive elected officials. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Unqualified: The Winding Road of Qualified Immunity
Somewhere along the way, Qualified Immunity was twisted to shield officers from consequences of actions no one can argue were ambiguous in wrongness.
