Yes, Folks, Jill Biden is a Doctor
For eight or nine centuries the doctorate of philosophy was eminently respectable, while the practice of medicine was still developing.
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The Progressive Response: Grief, and Tears
I wasn’t surprised by the election results. They’re still incomplete, and Biden may yet win, but regardless of the final tally half the country turned out to make clear just what they are. Just what we are. The thing that did take me aback a bit was the reactions of my friends. Sure, there was some outrage, as you’d expect.
Read more11.4.2020: American Democracy To-Do List
This will get us started. Did I leave anything out?
Read moreThe Ties That (No Longer) Bind
Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a referendum on what kind of human being you are. And you’re a referendum on me. We are who we ride with.
Read moreI’m Glad I Wasn’t Black Today
What can I say that won’t be proof of my privilege? Let’s be honest: right now, and in the near future, I get to be privileged white man on parade.
Read moreZen and the Highway
Ikkyū regards young Sōgi’s calligraphy as golden hour yields to white. “Your hand is inelegant, as always. It’s … bold, though.” Magpies screech disapproval from a nearby pine. A horn echoes through the courtyard. Sōgi looks in the direction of the disturbance. Ikkyū bows his head and sighs. “Forgive me for speaking out of turn, Master Ikkyū, but it would
Read moreDear Conservatives: It’s Judgment Day
This might be a good moment to break out your New Testament, review the parts in red, and consider the unsettling possibility that Jesus meant what he said.
Read moreTrump’s “Failure” to Denounce White Supremacy: Journalistic Malpractice in the First Degree
You at the Times … you’ve got something orange on your face. No, down a little, on your chin…
Read more#ArtSunday: Fall Flora
There’s something quite beautiful about this time of year, as nature begins tucking in and settling accounts…
Read moreCOVID Radio: Stay the Fuck Home, Becky
New and Improved! It will tap your toes, boogie your butt, make you smarter and better looking! Cures gout, unsightly warts and the heartbreak of psoriasis!
Read moreWas I Wrong About the Denver Police Department?
Did the cops take forever because they were incompetent or because they were okay with brown people carving up other brown people?
Read moreThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Abstract Daylily…
Read moreDo Billionaires Get a Bad Rap?
If the people with all the money are so rarely good human beings, it says something dire about the system that produces them and it has pointed implications for policy reform.
Read moreHey Look – More Goodell Bullshit!
I’ll repeat the question I asked back in June: Mr. Commissioner, which team will Kaepernick be playing for this fall?
Read moreCincinnati Play-By-Play Announcer and Known Man of Faith Victimized By Probability
What are the odds, really? I mean, you do something so out of character you’ve never done it before, and that one time in your entire fucking life there just happens to be someone recording.
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