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Many liberals are mourning the United States today; we have arrived at an easy moment for it. America’s vast and beautiful national parks stand among the resources the incoming administration plans to sell off to vampires in the drilling and mining industries. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Actually, never mind. I wrote a submission packet for The Onion a couple years ago and never sent it off because I got my current (excellent) job but it’s much more pleasant than anything I was going to write. I just wrote headlines and never got around to writing the actual articles, but some of
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I’m in a state of some despair over the future, as are I think many people. Part of this is religious disillusionment and part of it is just the horrible circumstance of realizing that A. we haven’t lived in a democracy for some time and B. the civic institutions that have somehow survived the quiet
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I am trying hard not to think about politics. So here are some of the weirder entries in my comic book collection. 1. The ring that stores the Flash’s costume with the power of Science 2. An extremely obscure Japanese edition of a wordless Frank story 3. The legendary LP that was supposed to come
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It’s funny, for broad values of “funny:” twice in the last two days I’ve seen messages on social media from friends gainfully employed as artists lamenting the inherent uselessness of art in the face of diminished labor protections, increased nuclear capacity, destroyed women’s rights, empowered white supremacy, etc etc etc.Certainly, those are valid feelings and
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Scroll down if you just want the top 10, read through for my list of things I thought about movies in 2016. Carrie Fisher died today. Perhaps it’s this numbing year of obituary after obituary but I find myself mostly grateful for her work and sorry she predeceased her poor mother, Debbie Reynolds. I know how tacky it is to
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2. As Lewis turns, he sees a tall man hurrying down the steps toward the water where the huge ships are passing slowly under the crumbling bridge, their decks piled with containers bound for Bermuda or Saigon or the Panama Canal. The Verrazzano still burns eight weeks after the last salvo, occasionally dripping red-hot chunks
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So here are a couple of stories for your consideration. The first is this piece, which I would call a very good breakdown of inequities in the Alabama criminal justice system, which is surely a target-rich environment for such a story. The reporters observe that 2/3 of all people arrested (!) in Dothan, Alabama
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US media was absolutely the target of a large and unusual disinformation campaign, apparently led by a single actor, apparently Russian in origin, reportedly on orders from Vladimir Putin himself. Russian disinfo campaign ≠ brainwashing. We still live in a world where a significant portion of the electorate genuinely believes there’s no noteworthy difference between
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Some lists *crawls into file cabinet, shuts drawer, does not come out* we’re identifying criminals by their ethnic heritage in our headlines now, great @DLind Here’s the full alert: pic.twitter.com/m1ZnLuLXX9 — Matt Ford (@fordm) November 28, 2016 Shit on your Steve Bannon profiles, especially the chin-stroking ones asking whether Bannon meant the whites or just
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