Or… I ain’t problematic, I have a [group name] friend!! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about in-person exposure to
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Hawkeye is the Best Avenger [SPOILERS!]
[SPOILER ALERT] after the jump! . . . . .
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An Ode to Chocolate Milk
Years ago, I interned at a small tech firm in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. When we would go out for lunch, I would invariably
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Would MLK be able to help today?
When in doubt, look to Ta-Nehisi Coates to describe the situation in Baltimore so much better than I could: When nonviolence is preached as
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Yellow Indians, White Asians, Black Europeans
… And Green Clovers? It’s easy and sometimes even required in politics to categorize peoples into very simplistic groups. Otherwise it would be difficult
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Muslim or Black in America
I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing
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Hillary Clinton and the Theatre of Stupid
… Or Hillary Clinton for President! Because Rednecks, That’s Why… Yesterday, Hillary Clinton finally officially announced that she’s running for Pres-o-dent of the Amrika.
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The Monarchs of the Long Decline
There’s a series of passages in Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel, Rendezvous with Rama where he talks about humanity’s reaction to its first
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Follow the Fold and Stray Some More
In high school, one of the musicals we did was the Guys and Dolls. I recently sat down and watched the 1955 movie version
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Prophet human
Or… God Uppercase I just started reading Rashed Hasan’s new treatise, Removing the Middleman: Deciphering Faith Without Ritual. The book is intended to be
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I’m Glad I Didn’t Get Into An Ivy League School
… Or I Would Choose Pitt over Penn if I Had To Do It Again It’s the silly time of the year known as
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