I’m guessing Ole Miss changes their tune and shoots out a relatively minor punishment eventually. But the fact that they said “nope this act of vandalism doesn’t seem to run afoul of our rules even though it’s nakedly racist and also vandalism” doesn’t really bode well.

I had to look it up since I’ve only been there once, but it was the Camel. My cousin is down there now, though he’s a young lawyer so he has zero free time, but I keep meaning to go down to see him and hit some of the used bookstores in Carytown again. That and I really want to go to that Siné again.  

No gymnastics involved. You’re not competent for such criticism. You don’t know the issue. You’re parroting the lines of far-right charlatans who know little to nothing about Islam they didn’t learn from another incompetent bigot.

I don’t know, depends on the venue. I was at a nice joint in Richmond a couple years back to see a band called Tiny Moving Parts, part of the “emo-revival” wave, and they had a bunch of local beers on tap. Seemed like they sold really well too. Most of the crowd at those emo revival shows are basically the same types…

I honestly think half the time people self-consciously drink PBR because in those circles it’s so strongly associated with the punk scene it’s like a right of passage.

Normally I wouldn’t pull filth like you out of the greys, but your ilk are swarming all the blogs today.

PBR is the beer you drink when you’re at a house show and helping the band unload their heavy gear and you need to walk all the way down to the basement but the stairs are crooked and old. PBR is the beer you drink when you get roped into running sound for some terrible local band because one of them is friends with…

It’s already been promoted by all the “Maybe Islamophobia is rational crowd”. A few have had the decency to delete it, but the damage is done and I doubt any of them will question the prejudices that lead them to promote the smear. A lot of the supposedly moderate or centrist sites and writers that have bigoted views…

Sometimes I wonder if there was a window of balanced internet saturation and we’re passed it. It’s hard to say, since I lived it, but back when things were a bit less online I feel like maybe teens were more skeptical of the internet, or more used to needing to go digging, or some other variable I’m not thinking of.

Hawley is a big candidate for “Trumpism after Trump”. Trump’s voters want someone they see as more successful than themselves, so his elite pedigree may not be a hindrance. Inconsistency in his message won’t bother people who’ve supported Trump. Ranting about “cosmopolitans” is a dog-whistle and everyone knows it, and…

I’d really love to see a Warren-Castro ticket, because the two of them have impressed me the most on policy and neither is a slouch on the more symbolic parts of political life either. 

Low expectations, but hell, it’s nice they took action so quickly and with little attempt to minimize or dismiss the issue.

I think it’s very possible that percentage of Republicans sit out. Even in favorable polling something like 10% of Republicans disapprove of Trump, and when you get into specific issues and deeper data there’s usually more. I don’t think 5% sitting out is impossible, though 5% voting for Democrats might be a bit much…

Only a small percentage of Republicans abandoning Trump would have some impact. His base is narrow. Independents, per a new poll I just saw today, are strongly against him. If 4-5% of Republicans can be convinced to reject Trump or not vote, it may make a difference. You’re not going to convince most, not with how the…

I disagree. The report was so badly covered the first time by the media that a second chance could have value. If Mueller stating things from the report leads to the report being more widely read or conclusions penetrating deeper into the American public than it’d be a solid win for the Democrats. The ignorance…

I’m fairly certain the vast majority of those cases were dropped a year ago or more. 

Honestly I use Youtube for stand-up clips and music. So I’m not the average consumer. At one point I wanted to start a Youtube channel, I’ve got the “talk about something in a way where people think you know what you’re talking about” skill combined with an actual desire not to misinform people, but I’ve never really…

Youtube culture has serious issues. Gods only know what’s gonna happen to the kids growing up idolizing these halfwits. I know there’s good and bad, but it seems like a lot of the biggest most influential actors are bad, whether they’re far-right charlatans pushing long-since discredited ideologies or stupid edgy…

We’re really verging on the point where these systemic attempts to abuse migrants could be credible called crimes against humanity.

His ignorance of basic regional dynamics is somehow even worse than you’d think. This was also where he claimed India wanted him to mediate on the issue of Kashmir, while actually India has spent decades claiming they reject any third-party role. The Afghanistan bit is incredibly stupid but somehow makes more sense…