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 ›
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“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 ›
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 ›
Brain Surgery Would Have Been Easier: Ben Carson’s Struggles With Foreign Policy
On the morning of September 5th, 1987, a brilliant young neurosurgeon named Ben Carson stood over the motionless, butterflied bodies of the 7-month old Binder boys at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Surrounded by an extensive team comprised of some of the… Read More ›
We Have Nothing To Fear But Trump Himself
Middle of Nowhere, North Georgia ain’t a bad place to be on a Monday night for an itinerant traveler. Provided you’re near a highway, there’s nothing you’re going to want for that you couldn’t stand to go a night without…. Read More ›
We’re Going To Miss You: Paying Homage To Jon Stewart on GOP Debate Night
Today, as we bid farewell to Jon Stewart in his tenure as one of the most unlikely voices of a generation on The Daily Show, I must hark back to the original king of American satire and mockery, Mark Twain… Read More ›
Of Caucasians & Caucuses: My Short, Strange Trip To See Ted Cruz In Iowa
It was late out. So late it was almost early. Almost, but not yet—the timers on the upside-down soft-serve lightbulbs that lined the balconies and shone down on all the little stairwell moths still having a few hours life left… Read More ›
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