Two posts? This close together, really? But the dam of stress-related emo has broke in favor of audactiy-driven incredulity, so ( Read more... )

I hate cryptic posts but I'll make an exception just this once. Maybe in a month I'll feel more in the mood to talk ( Read more... )

dramaturgy and roseanna are awesome.

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Okay, so I've graduated from yelling at regular news networks to yelling at the Daily Show about this, so I thought, it's about damn time I write this already.

I plan on addressing a few things in this post:
1) The policy actually inherent in the healthcare reform bills that have passed the House and Senate, and how it might change in the process ( Read more... )

WOW SO OKAY.

Today merits a post. I don't feel like my days really merit posting -- pretty much why I don't post much -- but today, of all days, merits a post. Tomorrow might, too, considering, but today. Wow.

All right, so I'm still in shock, bear with me.

In case you don't know, one of the days of inevitability, AKA Tax Day, is today. Some ( Read more... )

All right, taking a break from the paper-writing.

I decided in... July, I think? to finally subscribe to e-mail from Media Matters for America. MMA does what for the most part I don't have the time to do, and keeps track of the media, whether it be radio, blogs, newspapers or other periodicals. I'm not even going to deny that they lean to the left ( Read more... )

I love this country ( Read more... )

OKAY, I feel the need to point something out here.

I keep seeing a reference to Senator Obama's "Marxist" or "socialist" policies, or that he's a Marxist or a socialist. Et cetera. But let's clear something up.

Disclaimer! I speak right now as an undergraduate historian with a focus on the Cold War and socialism and communism in their many forms ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to say much of anything about this but the more I thought about it, the angrier I got ( Read more... )