For a 15 year old kid, that heavy handedness actually helped. Didn’t make me a luddite, but it did make me think.

Never read Raynd, but I loved Star Ship Troopers, and have recommended it to frequently.

Aldous Huxley promoted moral panics about atheism?

It’s not just the National Enquirer. Newsweek did this for Clinton (Bill) in the 90s. A whole host of news sources were aware of John Edward’s affair in 2008, but chose not to report on it.

I disagree on the 1984 vs Brave New World part. BNW is FAR more powerful because it’s harder to explain why it is a dystopian novel.  1984 is a heavy club with oppressive governments, but BNW shows a utopian future and, from our perspective, it’s awfully uncomfortable. Addressing that discomfort, and how we should…

Of course they had to make a black guy a bad guy.

Well, how does importing cheap, pliant workers help the working class?

They didn’t bring it up, because there isn’t a market to speak ill of this dead man.

Agreed. I’m withholding judgement here (especially if Szabo had punched someone else earlier. If that happened, I say drop the charges, but . . .). Sad that someone died, but I don’t for a minute believe it was planned.

If Jamil is charged with manslaughter, we’ll get complaints from The Root anyways. So it all works out.

Mongolian Fire Oil (or Chili Oil) has always improved it for me.

Wow! That English major paid off.

I was looking for Chapelle’s “When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong” skit, but could only find rip offs.

Smoothies are also a good way to dispose of brown bananas.

Yeah. I mean, look at Chicago over the weekend.

Thankfully, no Republican Congressman died as a result of the media’s vitriol. They’ve tried, mind you, and more than one has been hospitalized.

This has been a mandatory staple for Christmas Eve (and breakfast at Christmas). And it isn’t a salad, it’s dessert.

“i do not understand america’s fucking tax laws.”

Here you go:

This is what happens when you don’t let kids use the dangerous playground equipment.