Reposted from the Shoulder To Shoulder Campaign ——– Among the many gifts with which humanity has been imbued, none are as worthy of our awe and gratitude as the seemingly boundless capacity with which man, woman and child can adapt… Read More ›
2016 Election
The End of Our Beginning: Trumpism Beyond The Election
Evil like this doesn’t just go away. Evil like this has roots. Deep and gnarled ones. The sorts of roots so thick they look like lymphedemic legs swole up with fluid and turgid tissue. Roots grown fat from 400 years… Read More ›
“Will You Please Stop Saying That Word”: Why “Grab Them By The Pussy” Will End Trump’s Campaign
Why now? Why, after a well documented career of chauvinism, misogyny, lewdness, infidelity and sexual harassment lawsuits has the unearthing of Trump talking glibly to a feckless TV personality about sexually assault women finally started the chain reactions of Republican… Read More ›
Notable Only In Its Absence: Third Party Presidential Candidates Nonexistent HIV Policies
In a presidential election characterized by dissatisfaction with the status quo, why are third party candidates silent on HIV? ——– What is the victory of a third party candidate in a presidential election? Surely, the simplest answer is that victory… Read More ›
Is This How Republics End? What America Can Learn From Germany in the 1930s
On the corner of Lombard and Gay streets in downtown Baltimore, sandwiched between the touristy glitz of the Inner Harbor and the corridor of fleshy iniquities that is The Block, sits the Baltimore Holocaust Memorial. Every day, tens of thousands… Read More ›
Wetting His Dog Whistle: Donald Trump Jr. On The Campaign Trail In Mississippi
It’s time we talked about Philadelphia. Not the Philadelphia in Pennsylvania where the Democratic Party largely avoided a schism within their ranks and affirmed their place as the only one of the two major political parties to have even a… Read More ›
Stronger Together? Hillary & The Democrats Think So
For as long as I can remember, the Republican Party has always laid claim to the mantel of being the party of morality and that vast assortment of social mores that constitute “traditional American values.” To be sure, they weren’t… Read More ›
Extremism Begets Extremism: Why The GOP’s Fear Mongering Around Terrorism Makes Everyone Less Safe
Against my better judgement, and any consideration of my mental wellbeing, I have watched virtually every minute of this year’s Republican National Convention.What I have seen has not disappointed so far as spectacle is concerned, but has managed to calcify… Read More ›
Fear and Loathing (But Mostly Just Fear) At The RNC on Opening Night
It is easy to look at the discordant yammerings of the speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention and lose yourself in the inherent absurdity and grotesqueness of it all. From the attempts to paint undocumented immigrants… Read More ›
Canned Heat: How Pro Wrestling Can Shed Light On Hillary’s Campaign Woes
Hillary Clinton is Roman Reigns. Now, I would hope that, for the select few of you who are reading this who are both political junkies and pro wrestling fans, a lightbulb brighter than the Ultimate Warrior’s fluorescent face paint just… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 