Author: Tod Kelly
Sunday!
How The Man from U.N.C.L.E. succeeds in a way almost no other movie made from a classic TV show ever does.
Paging Dr. Saunders… Paging Dr. Saunders…
Can someone from the great state of Maine please explain their governor to me?
Broken Elephants, Part II: Ben Carson, Frank Gaffney, and The Way to Make Your Mark in Today’s GOP
What happens when a major political party’s ideology and electoral aspirations take a back seat to making a quick buck?
Broken Elephants, Part I: Donald Trump and the Triumph of the Conservative Media Machine
The Republican Party is broken. Arguments to the contrary are some combinations of smoke, mirrors, and wishful thinking.
The Slippery Slope of the Slippery Slope
To be fair, Slippery Slope arguments can at times be highly predictive. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t still a blight on clear thinking and honest discourse.
Be Bigger than Them
In which the aftermath of the Paris attacks illustrate how incapable we can be of recognizing who our enemies truly are.
Thoughts and prayers for the people of Paris
Feel free to treat this post as a statement of solidarity, a vigil, or whatever else you feel you need right now.
Enough Already, with the College Students This and the College Students That
Seriously. Knock it off.
Three Quick Observations About Last Night’s Debate
Be careful what you wish for; the GOP as a brand and little else; and why we should pass a law requiring John Kasich to be in all future debates.
America Indentured, Sidebar Discussion: How might we improve foreign worker safety conditions
Are the sum of our options truly limited to “happily profit off of others’ indentured servitude,” “forced imperialism,” and “leave them all to rot in poverty?”
Of course not.
America Indentured, Part II: Villains
In which I follow the money in search of an answer to this question:
Who was really responsible for a modern slave state on American soil?
America Indentured, Part I : What it Really Means to be MADE IN AMERICA
In which Mike Huckabee’s comments on the evils and benefits of slavery force me to consider how very far we haven’t come.
Four Lessons Learned from Last Night’s Debate
Journalists: Bad. Jeb!: Toast! Trump: Salesman. “Errol Flynn”: Not Errol Flynn.
The Toderonemy, Vol. I
Are we not men?
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