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Calling this just gibberish is fair, but I think more (or perhaps less) is going on. This is an attempt to talk about racism without mentioning the word “race”. This passage in particular is striking:

Yeesh, the commenter’s just not from New York (I didn’t know either). You’re not seriously making immediate knowledge of New York neighborhood names a necessary condition for cultural sophistication, are you?

“Vacate orders and evictions are Not The Same Thing - eviction comes from a judgement after a case in housing court, vacate orders come from the Department of Buildings.”

Tell that to the person who has to move out.

(Less snarkily, the article is about a state of de facto eviction occurring outside of the de jure

Someone who combined a sense of the absurd with the ability to make human bodies harder than usual. Someone like Zola — perhaps, Gorgonzola.

Maybe everybody on the internet already knows this recipe, but this dip’s goodness is honestly one of the pillars of my marriage. Also extremely easy.

Because he’s a Black Identity Extremist, you know, special measures had to be taken.

“Pickett’s charge was, for all practical purposes, over a few seconds after it began. The Army of Northern Virginia seemed affected by the pervasive boredom that occasionally shows up while sprinting at full speed into a hail of bullets.”

I’m pretty sure a letter like this is probable cause to ICE.

Still an erotic pose for a letter...or perhaps I should say, eroþic.

Totally. Here’s the thing about cheaping out on political salaries: the more they need money, the more unscrupulous entities will find ways for them to get it — and offering free housing is a great way to cut down on their expenses. Sure, we need to elect principled and honest people...but we also need to make it easy

The whole reaction to Wolf’s routine shows yet again how poorly prepared elite journalists are to understand and engage well-informed and sincere leftist anger.

A “rancor-a in Canada” and “The provoke-o in Toronto” are the best I’ve got. Maybe “Scenario in Ontario?”

I think it’s funniest by contrast with the elaborate setup Bush and co used to lie us into Iraq. Trump has figured out you don’t have to explain how there’s yellowcake uranium from Niger and aluminum tubes from Jordan that were carried by Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in suitcase dirty bombs that will finally

Huh, so if the socialist revolution has to begin with the public seizure of corporate property, I guess it has to begin in Delaware. Didn’t see that coming.

No way. The best team is Secretariat and his children, and it’s not close. That horse had 663 children!

So I think you all are proving my point? “Hmm, here is a good and easy thing you [Farrow], my former colleague and friendly acquaintance, have asked me to do. Before doing it, let me briefly dwell on an extremely bad and evil reason for not doing it, make that reason clear to you, and thus reveal the Machiavellian

Man, this kind of shit makes me remember why everyone hated Hillary in the first place. For someone supposedly experienced and good at politics, she sure does shoot herself in the face with her moral compromises. I mean, I voted for her and she would have been a fine president, but seriously: how out of touch do you

If this had been Enes Kanter, I’ve have said it was revenge for Byzantium.

Just as a thought experiment, I would like to read someone—anyone—defending Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s work for this administration. Is there literally anyone who thinks she is doing a good job?

“incoherent and hopeless but nonetheless consistently hilarious”