From the category archives:

Punditry

Giant Gay Umbrella

April 21, 2009

Funny or Die does it again, this time courtesy of Jane Lynch and friends. Brings a whole new level to “It’s raining men” for me.

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Obligatory Election Post

September 17, 2008

Wow, two in one day? What did they put in my latte this morning?

I could go into a long ramble, but since I already did that once this morning, I think I’ll just post the best summation of the McCain campaign I’ve seen so far . From The Confabulum:

Presented with the possibility of being a little short on the beef, [McCain's] campaign has determined to utterly void itself of beef, and run on cow farts instead.

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Things We Used to Know

September 17, 2008

This will be a rare long one…I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately.
It’s not quite what it sounds like.
What I mean is that all indicators seem to be pointing to a time where a lot of the way I (and most of the Western world) live is going to change due to outside factors [...]

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Reasons to Hope

February 4, 2008

I always want to find something pithy to say about politics, especially in an election season as charged as this one. But as usual, people who are far better writers than I have already beaten me to it. Michael Chabon’s call to hope (and a vote for Obama) says everything I could hope to about [...]

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As the bumper sticker says…

August 30, 2003

“Labor: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend”—from Jim Hightower, a little reminder of where this weekend’s celebration originated. Unions have certainly had (and continue to have) their own institutional troubles, but look at working conditions in the U.S. a hundred years ago, and you’d be hard pressed not to acknowledge their contributions to the [...]

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The Gentrification of Marriage

August 14, 2003

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy may be just the beginning? Interesting article from AlterNet that suggests the queer community may be the ones to refurbish the institution of marriage, along with urban neighborhoods and a select group of East Coast straight men. Mostly humorous, but there’s an interesting element of truth there: that those [...]

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Why Being a Teenager Sucks

July 9, 2003

I meant to post this a while back: Why Nerds Are Unpopular by Paul Graham. It mostly discusses the difficulties of being a smart kid in middle and high school, but even though the nerds definitely bear the brunt of peer torment during those years, it has a lot to say about why that period [...]

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