The reason you keep being disappointed and caught up in the fake shock at some scandal is that everybody you look up to is human. Being human means that they struggle with some version of the same things you struggle with. It’s all struggle and failure, every attempt to make something of your life, to [...]
Here is the thing that you have to remember about the present attempts to tarnish Obama with the Emmanuel-Blagojevich scandal: Bill Ayers. If the Republicans would use an tangential, inconsequential relationship to make out that Obama is a Marxist America-hating terrorist then they will stop at pretty much nothing. If Obama so much as trips [...]
What you don’t seem to get, students of the world, hard-workers of the world, is that nobody cares about how smart you are or how hard you work or how well you do your job. It’s all about whether or not people like you, and like having you around. If people find you likable and [...]
Look, lefties, it’s not a figment of your imagination. I was a (social) Conservative at one point in my life, maybe to an extent still am, the point is that yes, they are bigots. Bigoted on every level that a mostly white, apparently heterosexual, fundamentalist people can be bigoted on. They hate and they do [...]
One of the many afflictions of parenthood is the delusion that your child is particularly cute and/or unique to everybody else in the world. When you are in a conversation with a parent and their child is somewhere near and they pause the conversation to talk to their child what they really want is to [...]
An old balding man running for leadership of a First World country would normally have no chance, unless he is running against a black guy. Another whose ideas require a certain amount of common sense, and which would be drastically different from what is currently espoused has no shot.
Normally you have to look at [...]
Unlike what most people call Christianity, some forms of this religion allow for active, unprovoked violence against non-combatants. In places where the conventional interpretation of Christianity is common this can only be seen as savage and threatening.
If you look different, speak a different language and dress differently then people are going to be threatened by [...]
Does your powerlessness not bother you? With the suits who run your life with their rules and uniformed enforcers? It seems to me that the willingness to submit, to not defy, is a symptom of something far more important than any contemporary issue that is widely discussed. You are weak, and you need to be [...]
I am not quite sure what protests are for. I mean, you inconvenience some people, you show the people you are protesting against that there are a relative handful of loud youngsters willing to get some signs together and mobilize to yell at you, but none of that is particularly impressive since the amount of [...]
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