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 ›
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Sentiment Over Substance: How Presidential Candidates Talk About Addiction Without Saying Much Of Anything
It happened at the beginning of the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic, well before the 5 mid-card presidential candidates who participated in the event showed up to speak. About halfway through the morning portion of the… Read More ›
DebateKings: Your Only Home For (Fake) Fantasy GOP Debate Contests
Sick of the 2016 presidential race already? Well, tough shit, because we’ve still got another 420 days to go until election day and that’s pretty much all you’ll be hearing about from now until then. Want to have a meaningful… Read More ›
You Can’t Quarantine Stupid: Ebola & Unconstitutional Health Policy
The year was 1918. After two and a half years of uneasy neutrality, America had finally entered The Great War and had committed over 4 million men to the war effort. As one would expect—or at least hope—the United States… Read More ›
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›