Monday, November 14, 2016

Live by the political sword, die by the political sword (3)

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The New York Times reports that Obama has left the door open to strong security tactics by Trump: Over and over, Mr. Obama has imposed lim...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Someone actually said this: Republicans, cities, and small government

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In today's New York Times, we read why Republicans no longer compete in America's big cities and how they could do so: “If you com...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Peter Thiel is no true gay Scotsman.

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A while back, I wrote about the no-true-Scotsman fallacy and its use to argue away dissent in the LGBT community: Orthodox queer people al...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

The rule of blame

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The rule of blame: All of the credit goes to our side; all of the blame goes to someone else. Corollaries: 1. If one politician of the oth...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Schrödinger's Gay Man

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Schrödinger's gay man is extremely picky about whom he's attracted to and simultaneously is willing to sleep with whatever moves. S...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

People actually say this: Larry Hogan and the blame game

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Now that Maryland has a Republican governor, it is a truth universally acknowledged that everything bad that happens in Maryland is his faul...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Faux News op-ed: I Am Down with the Working Class

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One might think that as an undergraduate majoring in identity studies at Uxbridge University, I would consider the concerns of working-class...