So I have some thoughts about superdelegates… If you hadn’t noticed by now, I’m kind of an election junkie. I love politics. I find them fascinating. You remember how much you hated social studies in school and how your eyes glazed over when you got p that all the civics bullshit? Not me. I loved it.…
Earlier today, my friend Shelby, posted a Facebook link to a pretty good analysis of American politics in terms of professional wrestling by Oliver Willis. It’s well written and very smart. Willis does an excellent job of breaking down the current political landscape and inserting it into his professional wrestling framework. I feel like my friends AJ, Dan, Patrick…
So I’ve been thinking it through, and I’ve decided that maybe it’s time for me to make a total reversal of my political views. It’s time to get extreme. Donald Trump has a point. These are trying times. We must be willing to make the tough choices. While yes, it is true that the vast majority of…
I’m weird… I know that. If you read my blog entries over the past couple decades it’s pretty clear that I’m so far left of center that I barely even show up on the political chart. And I know that! There’s never going to be a president in my lifetime that matches my politics. At…
Frankly, I actually found the whole “Still Does His Job” meme a little silly. That said, I am completely and totally disappointed in every wrestling fan on the Internet for not coming up with this before I did. I mean come on, the last few days that people have been posting these should have been the…
Teaching English is a pretty cool job. But it’s probably not the job most people think it is. In a perfect world, every day of teaching English would be about giving inspirational speeches while making students jump up on top of their desks. Really though my fondest dream as an English Teacher is to make sure none of my…
A few weeks back, a friend of mine posted a link to a link to a youtube video that was a clip from one of my favorite TV shows in recent time. In fact it may be my favorite moment of that series. It is a clip from the first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s newsroom, wherein…
I’m sure everyone only pay attention to me on the internet because you want me to point out all the really important hard hitting news stories, right? So when I saw this one I felt like it was my duty to point it out. Apparently, Malia Obama has worn a T-shirt with the logo of…
I keep seeing people post this story about how Pennsylvania governor, Tom Corbett has been “caught” photoshopping a black woman into his campaign photo. At first glance the photo is innocuous; there is Corbett standing amongst his legions of constituents, a man amongst the people, listening to their problems, doing what governors do! And right there…
So the Guardian scored an interview with Edward Snowden this week and as expected he said a lot of stuff about his claims of the illicit behind the scenes activaty of the NSA. Of course, this is the internet, so everyone ignored all the black ops espionage stuff, his talking about the poor encryption that corporations use, his description…
US Supreme Court (Photo credit: dbking) Even without looking at CNN, I can guess by the way FB/twitter just lost its shit, #SCOTUS just ruled exactly the way I expected them to. Related articles What The SCOTUS Decision On Birth Control Insurance Coverage Might Mean … SCOTUS was busy This Day…
This weekend I traveled to Washington DC with my fiancee to attend Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I was quite interested in seeing what kind of people would show up. Despite knowing Stewart’s premise that the rally was for the 80% of Americans who don’t fall into the 10%…