Nineteen years apart. I don’t know if it was that he became more radical with age, or if it was that he realized the changed times allowed for more militant activism that wouldn’t have worked earlier. I mean, from a 2020 perspective, I look at Mattachine and think their tactics would be practically ineffective now,…

“I really thought it was Storming the Bastille”

The Greeks must’ve had a word for anti-pragmatism. The mindset that allows for “Give me security theater that doesn’t actually do anything to stop the threat as long as it makes me feel good” to coexist with “Reasonable, science-based protocols are just liberal fear mongering because they involve a sacrifice I don’t…

I remember granddaddy’s cough

Yeah, you just toggle over from the “Park Slope” setting so you don’t get Parker, Tucker, Tanner, or Baxter.

This goes back to the origins of the gay rights movement, where you had conservative gay groups that were content to push for something closer to assimilation into hetero society at odds with militant groups that were more of the Out and Proud variety. I think the Mattachine Society would’ve been happy to have cops…

A nation descended from religious nuts and corporations. 

So this is heresy and might be grounds to have me booted from the country, but sometimes the Founding Fathers got things wrong. I know. I KNOW! But it’s true. In their attempt to create an entirely new country with an experimental form of government they actually made a few mistakes. Sometimes it was because they…

Why are there two Dakotas? Do we need both Montana and Wyoming? Here’s what you do: you take those four states, turn them into two states (call them whatever you want), make DC and Puerto Rico states, and then you don’t even need to change the design of the precious flag. Solved!

Article title: BRAVO!

Other names that might fit better:

There are towns in Massachusetts that claim to be part of the North Shore despite being forty minutes drive inland and never touching a hint of ocean. Words are meaningless. Nothing means anything anymore.

How long is uncomfortably long? Are we talking 2-3 seconds? 5-10? Asking for a friend.

Which I would argue proves that they weren’t right or ready for college at that point. For some, a gap year is enough time to adequately mature. For others, they need more time or are never ready or discover they’re interested in a career that doesn’t require college. The “13th grade” attitude toward going to college…

I like how the lede in every story about this guy is how he beat someone who was endorsed by Trump and then you read his positions and he might as well be Eric’s lost twin.

“The only way to get rich from a self-help book is to write one.” —Christopher Buckley

Except that they re-released the movie in 1986 to build interest in Splash Mountain, which opened in 1989, and regularly aired an edited version on the Disney Channel for decades and as recently as 2001. Also, Eisner explicitly prevented home video release of the film in the US but allowed it in Europe and Asia…

And for any kid thinking of taking a gap year who has parents freaking out that they won’t actually end up going to college (like mine did), offer mom and dad some statistics:

You can’t rely on corporations to do the right thing. You have to Trojan horse the right thing in a capitalist agenda. This is a perfect example. Disney has a ride themed on IP they can’t make any more money off of (Song of the South). They have other IP that is more recent and not being fully leveraged (Princess and…

The original McDonald’s menu only had 9 items: hamburger, cheeseburger, fries, milkshake, Coke, root beer, coffee, orange drink, and milk—because they knew focusing on a smaller selection meant a better product and faster service. So it’s only taken them about 70-something years to remember a concept they themselves…