I think, for context, the American Civil War was a failed rebellion, slavery was one policy of many that the confederate states wanted to hold on to, and a policy the established federal government was beginning to turn against. Whether Robert E. Lee kept slaves or not is secondary to the fact that he was a leader in…

What is all this revisionist horseshit? Lee was a traitor who helped lead a bloody and destructive rebellion and LOST...the only reason he retained his life and any sort of property is that we fought that war under some weird mishmash of genteel rules reserved for lords and knights, where officers, especially cavalry,…

This is literally how White Privilege gnaws at society and what pisses off minority groups of all sorts: at the end of the day, White kid can take his nazi costume off and go back to his normal life. The POC protesters wear their skin color home like target, all day, every day, forever.

This. The whole Vice piece they were clamoring to clear the “filth” and to reclaim their perfect white heritage from “animals” and “savages” and white children this and blood and soil that and all I kept thinking was that there wasn’t enough “pure” genetic material in the crowd to launder Dolph Lundgren’s jockstrap.

...and the splatter on the wall glimmered like a field of a million red stars.

If I may be so bold, I’d like to posit a 7th option: INFILTRATE these organizations to leak their nefarious plans and agendas and publications and such. This is a tactic the Feds like to use on all sorts of protest organizations, to get wind of criminal activity in advance. If progressive-minded people are part of the…

Is this a newer phenomena? I took family roadtrips all the time as a kid, and alot in college 20 years ago, but I never saw anybody put their foot up on the dash (or alternately, out the window, by the side mirror) until like 10-ish years ago. Trying to figure out if it’s caused by some design trend or there was…

What happens in “the Battery” when there’s no baseball? Chicagoan here, and Wrigley Field has been around for a century...the City and landlord just got wise (relatively) like a decade ago to start doing things like concerts and hockey games to keep people coming to the area in the off-season. I somehow don’t see the…

I thought Valerian was good, but I’d like to see a director’s cut...I have a feeling there were significant bits cut or edited for time and American audiences’ propensity to not be able to hold too many plot threads together at one time.

It’s encouraging to hear that glyphosate doesn’t bioaccumulate - I hadn’t seen any research that indicated that, and didn’t realize that longer term studies of that nature had been undertaken. As an omnivore, I take the content of my meat and dairy items fairly seriously as I know they can be potential sources of…

OH, and also - how exactly can somebody “examine their choices” when Monsanto and Friends have been lobbying HARD for decades to prevent any meaningful food labeling that would allow a concerned shopper to otherwise avoid glyphosate (or other persistent synthetic toxins) in their food selection?? The closest match…

...but the one-two-punch of Monsanto is the development and promotion of the so-called “Round-up Ready” crop lines. A business model that basically pushed the indiscriminate spray of glyphosate, was inevitably going to lead to finding glyphosate in rural air quality tests, soil, neighboring farms, and drinking water.…

I fly outta Midway usually, where the TSA is all petty-squabbling, mouth-breathing, either barely qualified to hold a service job, or superiority complex that comes with a pretty blue uniform and shiny badge. The security at Midway is only tolerable when it’s super early or super late, otherwise the line just snakes…

I question the athletic bona fides of baseball players and football players all the time....two sports that consistently field “portly” and “chubby” dudes and consist of a large amount of standing around waiting for something to happen. They don’t have the hustle of basketball, soccer or hockey, nor do they have the…

I knew the video would be unsettling, but I had to see it. I had to try and understand how a “peace officer” supposedly serving and protecting sees fit to empty a clip into a man at a traffic stop, with his girlfriend and a small child sitting in the car.

Thoughts -

One thing that always bugged me about classified or secret information is that if the thing being classified is a FACT, eg: John Smith is an intelligence operative inside Kreplachistan, it can still be discovered or surmised through other means. SO the documents that say John Smith is a spy are classified, but what…

Texas is one place in America where significant numbers of undocumented immigrants were brought here as infants and children - they were too young to make the decision to come here, and this life is the only one they’ve ever known or can remember. Now all grown up and pulled over for a broken tail light and you’re…

I’m sort of OK with this point of view, as I’ve been recently leaning toward the belief that there are Human Beings and then there are GOP Elected Officials.

I’m squarely in the camp that the map graphic presentation is part of the problem. If the color saturation or shade were adjusted to correspond with the population density of the county/precinct, the image would do a better job of communicating the stats. When a borderline lunatic like #45 or any of his supporters…