Politics

A Special Comment

Hatchet columnist Andrew Clark recently wrote a piece entitled:”I voted ‘yes’ on Prop 8: Gay marriage legalization not equialent to civil rights movement,” and it’s the dumbest thing I have read in a long time.
His article is very, very dumb.
Am I resorting to insulting an article that has a different opinion than me?  No.  I [...]

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YES WE DID!!

Barack Obama!
BARACK OBAMA!
AMERICA!
Barack Obama just gave the most awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, intellectually honest, honest, beautiful speech I’ve ever heard in my life.  His face, his eyes, his voice: a serrated poem of a man.
Yes we can.
Yes we did.
Yes we will.
[Travis Edit]
Here’s the footage of Obama’s Victory Speech. It’s unbelievable.

Here’s ABCNews footage of the rally at [...]

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Subliminal Racism in New McCain Ad

This hasn’t been posted anywhere yet, and I wanted to share it with you guys first.
Take a look at the new John McCain ad entitled “Special.”  See if anything sticks out at you:
Yes?  No?  Well, take a closer look 11 seconds in.  Here is a screen-shot:

Okay, that’s fine.  He doesn’t have experience.  But that is [...]

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I’m Glad I Have A Bike

Today, WMATA introduced an exciting new policy: Random Bag Searches!
This makes me uncomfortable, it makes the City Paper’s Eric Wemple uncomfortable, too:
Instanalysis on the bag searches: You might be thinking, hey, these are going to be random searches and won’t likely affect me. But the point is that if they’re to have any terrorism-deterring value, [...]

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Popular Culture: An Apology - Volume 1

Submitted by Max Utzschneider, Logic Tutor

It has become cliché to lampoon popular music for being lyrically incoherent or banal. By popular music I mean the type that teenagers gyrate to in clubs across the country, repeating the refrain in endless, subconscious monotone. But perhaps we are not giving popular music the [...]

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The Final Debate

To continue the tradition of high quality mid-term content, I would like to discuss the final debate.  Since I was studying, I was unable to watch the debate, so I want to know what you thought.
But more importantly, I want someone to tell me what the fuck is going on in these two pictures:

For the [...]

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Life Imitating Art Imitating Life

“My Friends…” Look at the unbelievable parallels to the political discourse in this country right now:

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That One

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An Open Letter to Vishal Aswani: What the Fuck?

WHAT THE FUCK!?!
A recent Hat Shed article, which has a link to a pdf of an awkward, threatening email from Greta Twombly to the SA representatives.  A png (portable network graphics! it’s like a jpeg, but different because it…oh, nevermind) of the pdf is at the bottom of this post, click it and make [...]

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William F Buckley Is An Asshole

Remember when that asshole William F Buckley Died?
Remember when Noam Chomsky killed the very same Wylie Frank Buckleyston back in 1968?
Well, Bill Fucking Bucklefuck pulled a fast one from beyond the crypt. Bucklefuck’s will says:
“I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes … shall be deemed to have predeceased me.”
Jonathan [...]

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