from boston and i don’t think anything about this city is unique aside from how poorly it was planned and the very specific brand of psychological warfare carried out against its citizens by the MBTA.

while i think Don might be slipping, i don’t think he’s demented. to me, based on his approach to foreign policy, it seems like he has PTSD related to 9-11. clearly that event changed him - he hallucinated cheering Muslims, spearheaded the Obama-birther movement, and his first foreign policy act was to ban travel from…

this is it, in a nutshell - all of our problems: “And the people that were on the other side of the argument didn’t have a chance, right?”

that’s not the point of discourse. that’s not discursive progress. you don’t conduct discourse to try to beat the other person - you conduct discourse to learn FROM the other…

you don’t know the difference between a fellow citizen who will take an opportunity and one who will drive a truck through a (who cares what kind of) market.

look, this policy is rooted in fear, in an attempt to control what nobody can control. that’s why we can’t do it: not just because it hurts some people, but…

this is the outcome of nearly 80 years of crass consumerism: your value to other Americans will be measured only in what they perceive to be your value within our economic systems.

we see ourselves only as consumers, not as citizens, and as such, we routinely abdicate our responsibilities as citizens.

if you find…

yeah, i’m a regular person, too. i have a career and responsibilities. and you know what? i tend to all my responsibilities AND find time to advocate for the well-being of others in the world.

being a “regular” person doesn’t absolve you of responsibility to your peers, to humanity (nor does having a job, a family,…

actually, Yaafm, we’re demonstrating how our country is supposed to work. yes, many people voted for Donald Trump (not the popular majority,) and he had enough support to win the Electoral College fair and square. so yeah, he’s our president, but this is American democracy, and in American democracy, the president…

you can tell by looking at grigson that irsay just hired the guy who reminded him most of a younger version of himself

this nonsense take unraveled at “natural athletic abilities” and just kept going.

Cooley isn’t a Millennial. Also, fake news isn’t really a Millennial problem. Millennials are actually very savvy at negotiating information online - they’re digital natives. The people who are susceptible to the fake news thing are the older generations just coming to the internet who can’t parse out the difference…

the cables are set up so that there is no cable that runs the length of the field. there are cables at each corner of the camera that connect to the four corners of the field. the camera moves by negotiating all four cables, so if the camera is behind the line of scrimmage, the cable wires on the front of the camera…

if MLB really can’t afford to pay minor leaguers minimum wage, they should downsize the farm league and the pro league accordingly. that’s how business works. can’t make enough money to pay your employees? reduce the business you do to something more sustainable vis-a-vis your revenue stream.

why, all of a sudden in…

so, conveniently, the one piece of information at play in this discussion.

if you want facts, read peer reviewed history. when it comes to art, you have to engage with it on its own terms. or else you’re not really experiencing art. you’re experiencing yourself rewriting that art as you would have it be.

i’m not seeing you give me a reason why identity and personal circumstance should play into analysis. because i will conceded that it can, and even that allowing it to can aid and abet textual analysis, but i certainly don’t see it as necessary.

aspects of the writer’s identity manifest in the compositional choices…

i’ve touched on my feelings about the fictional memoir (not autobio). it doesn’t bother me for a multitude of reasons, namely that memoirs are never based in factuality anyway.

and i’m not advancing a formalism, merely acknowledging that engaging with an author’s personal identity is not a fundamental component of…

this is simply not possible, to prove any personal, narrative account of anything as fact.

biography is based on a wide, exhaustive swath of third party research - one that engages in interviews with relatives, colleagues, and close friends, as well deep digging into personal letters, journals, and other sources of…

and one could argue that most memoirs, from a factual standpoint, are not true. they are one person’s totally subjective account of a series of events culled together into a fabricated narrative structure or framework.

memoir falls under the distinction of creative writing for a reason. it’s not journalism. if you…

as a fiction writer and literary analyst - simply, no. a writer’s project should be analyzed out of context with its author’s identity, especially if it’s published as fiction. fiction is an artistic, intellectual exercise, one in which the resulting content most often has nothing to do with author, the author’s…

he shouldn’t have. nearly every memoir you’ve read has contained fabrication approaching, if not on part with, what frey did in “pieces.”

couldn’t get past the description of the OG post. possibly the most unrealistic depiction of adult dating i’ve ever read.