Tag: politics
The 5 Different 9/11s Part One
This past weekend marked the twentieth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. I vaguely remember being 11 in sixth grade and watching as the smoke rose into lower Manhattan’s […]
The 2021 Football Season is Revealing How Sports Media Continues to Fail
Football season is officially back. With 2 full weeks of college games and the first week of NFL games in the books, it doesn’t seem like anything has changed. The […]
Presidential Ranking and the Politics of Memory
This past June, C-SPAN released an updated United States Presidential ranking. This was their 4th installment of the rankings. Beginning in 2000 and following each change of administration in 2009 […]
Ranked Choice Voting Was Supposed to Save Us
In next week’s Mayoral primary, the voters of New York City will have a new process. They’ll be able to rank their top 5 candidates instead of choosing a single […]
The Constitutional Convention Saved a Flailing Young Country in 1787
On This Day in American History — May 25, 1787 — The Constitutional Convention Begins In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln called it “a new birth of freedom.” Lyndon […]
Leadership is Dead, Long Live the Memes
You may not have noticed but our society is currently desperate for leadership. Demand has dwarfed the supply. The leadership market has been flooded with fakes, counterfeits, and phonies posing […]
4 Obvious Reasons We are in the Dumbest Timeline
The concept of Parallel Universes, or alternate dimensions and realities, has seeped into popular culture over the past decades. They are colloquially referred to as “bizarro” universes, first referenced in […]
Donald Trump Was Count Dooku. The GOP Searches for its Anakin
Emperor Palpatine (AKA Darth Sidious) is a member of an order known as the Banite Sith. Those are Sith lords in the tradition of Darth Bane. An even longer time […]
Every American Walks Ankle-Deep in Blood
Every morning, I turn on the faucet to brush my teeth, and I am shocked the tap doesn’t run crimson with blood. I’m surprised every time rain begins to fall […]
Biden Is A Progressive, Even If The Left Isn’t Happy
I’ve come to eat crow. Joe Biden is a progressive. I didn’t think he would be when I voted against him in last year’s Democratic primary. Many on the Left […]