I don’t use my blog for two years, and then the dam breaks! ok, here we go… As a cultural theorist I sort of hate when people make broad sweeping generalizable statements. If you pay attention to posts I make, I tend to not use phrases like “straight white men” or “toxic masculinity”. Subcultures are…
I think it’s time for a Biden heel turn… for the good of his presidency… let me explain… So four years ago, I went to a conference at the Southern Sociological Society that happened to be held the same week as Wrestlemania LITERALLY ACROSS THE FUCKING STREET. I gave a talk where I basically explained…
So I was doing some random Wikipedia surfing earlier, and I ran across a page detailing all of the political sex scandals on a federal level in US history. Of course I read it… DON’T JUDGE ME! And I know some of you are reading it too! Anyway, I got to the end of the…
(This is going to be a long one… I’ve put off writing about this for a while.) So about two and a half months ago, America seemingly got really bored and decided to end itself… you know… cuz why not? At least that’s one view. Another view is that a small sect of megalomaniacal billionaires, the…
I often like to say that in current social media landscape, politics is basically just football. The specific policies and actions don’t matter anymore. You pick your team and you stick to it and anyone that opposes your team is automatically an asshole and anyone who is for your team is automatically good. Logic doesn’t matter and…
Honestly, this may be the greatest week in the history of American politics. I always find it fascinating living history. But right now, I don’t so much want to live history. I want to fast forward. I want to jump to thirty years in the future and i want to read a 2046 middle school American history…
Now see, I told you the 2016 RNC was going to be amazing fucking television! So here’s the thing. It probably isn’t surprising to anyone that I don’t like Ted Cruz. In fact, back in the beforetime — the long, long ago — I often said that I actually wasn’t all that afraid of a…
So obviously something horrible happened with the mass shooting in Dallas yesterday. And as I predicted when in my last post, that pretty much meant that my renewed faith in humanity could shrivel up and die. If Micah Johnson proved anything he proved that racist killings are not limited to white people and not limited…
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.…
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…
Day 1212 of 365 4 lyf. So on election days the past several years, I’ve had this thing where I refuse to vote for anyone who is running unopposed. So when I see something like that, I do the natural thing. I write my own name in. So I got a letter in the mail…