Category Archives: Culture War

The War on Planet Earth

Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 by Keith

If, like me, you’re wondering what’s up with Republicans these days. We’re used to them being sour, belligerent, classist and even a wee bit racist. It’s well documented that the GOP just doesn’t care much for people of color, women, … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With the World Today, Part Eleventy Billion

Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 by Keith

People keep asking how we got here. How we, the noble citizens of a once proud nation, came to find ourselves in a situation where demonstrators in Wisconson have to protest in order to keep collective bargaining for unions. How … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Hate Us For Our Freedoms after All

Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 by Keith

Over at the Awl, we find this enlightening piece on Egypt and Egyptians attitudes towards the US. Far from being the fever dream of our own would-be theocrats on the right, the situation is a lot more complicated and positive. … Continue reading →

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The Millennial Myth

Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Keith

You may have heard of the Millennials (and count yourself lucky if you haven’t). They’re the tech savvy kids born since the late 1980s, who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones and are plugged in, turned on and … Continue reading →

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The Word That Shall Not Be Named

Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Keith

when it comes to the matter of censoring the word “nigger” form Huck Finn, I’m with the Rude Pundit: You can’t take the word “nigger”? Then, sorry, you don’t get to enjoy the rest of Twain’s satire of human degradation … Continue reading →

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Just a Theory

Posted on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Keith

I woke up this morning thinking about the Bible. People ask why I don’t sleep well. The bags under my eyes? it’s because my brain is trying to kill me so it can slip off and find a new host, … Continue reading →

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Number 1: Stop Eating Patato Chips

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Keith

Over at io9, Annalee Newitz has a grand little editorial taking the piss out of the Singularity: It’s not that we couldn’t anticipate these problems, and even generate some Plan B ideas for dealing with them. But it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Only 6 Years to Go

Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Keith

Matt Taibbi chews up the Tea Party and spits it out: Beneath the surface, the Tea Party is little more than a weird and disorderly mob, a federation of distinct and often competing strains of conservatism that have been unable … Continue reading →

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Either Or

Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Keith

Fred over at Slacktivist plays a round of everyone’s favorite game, Evil or Stupid? with the latest hollering out of the GOP noise machine: Today’s contestants are the 52 percent of Republicans who claim to believe that President Obama secretly … Continue reading →

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California May Not Sink Into the Sea After All!

Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Keith

As Rogers put it, if you want to live in the 21 C, stand over here: A federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter … Continue reading →

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