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Roller Derby Reconstruction

My local roller derby scene has a league again. …

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Roller Derby Reconstruction
Roller Derby Reconstruction

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May 30

Let’s Stop Being So Goddamn Polite

States are banning books to appease the complaints of sad, narrow-minded and perverted bigots. The perverted bigots are losing their sad and narrow little minds because they are losing the future and they know it. …

Culture War

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Let’s Stop Being So Goddamn Polite
Let’s Stop Being So Goddamn Polite
Culture War

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May 10

Gun Culture is No Culture

Washington Post, May 9, 2023: ‘The Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce in Texas [where a gunman killed eight people, including three children, at a shopping mall less than 24 hours earlier] published a Facebook post Sunday welcoming Pulling Triggers and Pulling Corks — a business that hosts events for people…

Gun Violence

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Gun Culture is No Culture
Gun Culture is No Culture
Gun Violence

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May 5

Thinking in Words

Among the various civic issues of our times, We the People are dealing with typically awful reporting on the whole Republican House majority’s debt ceiling drama. Like this ridiculously desperate “both-sides” headline from Scripps, screaming “Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue blame game as debt ceiling looms.” Because god forbid that…

US Politics

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Thinking in Words
Thinking in Words
US Politics

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Apr 17

Confederacy of Zombies

I ran out of patience a long time ago with a bruised and battered News business trying desperately to cover American politics as if it were an honest game between two perspectives about public policy priorities, on face value and in all good faith. No, our national struggle has long…

US Politics

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Confederacy of Zombies
Confederacy of Zombies
US Politics

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Return of the Ivy King Cup

Among the four teams of Chicago’s Windy City Rollers, the Fury has held the WFTDA affiliate league’s home season trophy since 2020. The WCR home season trophy is named for Ivy King, a star who wore the number 1 in what was the first Transcontinental Roller Derby event at the…

Windy City Rollers

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Return of the Ivy King Cup
Return of the Ivy King Cup
Windy City Rollers

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Feb 24

Nothing to Offer but Fear Itself: On the GQP’s Labyrinth of Bullshit

“Woke!,” “wokeness!,” “wokeism!,” cry Putin’s little American fascists…. This is all we need to know about how Republicans will try to get us to vote for them. The GQP has nothing to offer but fear itself. Which does not mean, however, that their policy priorities, such as they are, aren’t…

Maga

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Nothing to Offer but Fear Itself: On the GQP’s Labyrinth of Bullshit
Nothing to Offer but Fear Itself: On the GQP’s Labyrinth of Bullshit
Maga

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Feb 15

Zany Misadventures in Identity Politics: Right-Wing Media Echo-Chamber Edition

The right-wing Newsmax cable channel and its fans are currently engaged in a fight against DirecTV’s decision to discontinue the underperforming channel in its lineup. Right-wing conservatives love their splashy performances of anger and resentment over what they typically call “special rights” for minorities, queers and liberals. The carrier had…

House Oversight Committee

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Zany Misadventures in Identity Politics: Right-Wing Media Echo-Chamber Edition
Zany Misadventures in Identity Politics: Right-Wing Media Echo-Chamber Edition
House Oversight Committee

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Feb 14

Priorities

In America today, We the People live in a time and place where states rule that children may carry firearms unsupervised out in public and may not read books in public schools or libraries that deal with race and gender issues. The conservatives that are mostly responsible for these warped…

Culture War

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Priorities
Priorities
Culture War

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Feb 7

Giving a Shit

The Jewish morning service in some synagogues includes a meditative blessing that “expresses wonder at the simple but necessary functioning of the human body,” wrote Arthur Green in a commentary for the Reconstructionist Sabbath holiday prayer book. “We do not need to stand before any greater wonder of nature than…

Philosophy

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Giving a Shit
Giving a Shit
Philosophy

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