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  • How Facebook Is Destroying Democracy (2010)

    In 2010 the idea that Facebook is destroying democracy was roundly laughed at and dismissed. In 2023 it doesn’t seem so funny.

  • Tebow, Dobson, and God

    Discussing the issue of abortion in the frame of Tim Tebow’s 2010 Superbowl ad.

  • More Two-Party Myths

    We have to get over two-party myth that a magical third party is going to rise up from outside the current party system to save us. It won’t, and the fantasy is deadly.

  • Dress Codes? Seriously?

    Dress codes and other mandatory compliance demands are the behavior of totalitarian thugs and bullies.

  • God, Glue-Guns, and Glory

    Recounting a 2009 case involving a theofascist attempting to bait the courts into validating his right to impose his beliefs on the general public while working for a non-religious employer

  • Health Care A Right?

    Is health care a right? A privilege? A commodity? Let’s take a look.

  • Bill Hicks: The Dark Poet Rises

    Comedian Bill Hicks was one of a kind. Too bad his fans these days are pretty common, basic, and entirely missing the point. Curated 2009 post, edited and updated in 2023.

  • McCain Hands Obama The Presidency

    (Curated( Reviewing John McCain’s decision to “suspend” his 2008 Presidential Campaign to address a pending financial bailout in Congress.

  • What Real Media Bias Looks Like (2010)

    Deconstructing a corporate media article with a clear but subtle series of bias cues.

  • Thanks, America (2008)

    Curated post from November 5, 2008, celebrating the election of Barack Obama