The overlooking of racism from his book is precisely the kind of thing a biographer should not be doing - anyone writing about Cobb should have to grapple with it. The relativism often prevalent in this discussion (“other people were racist too;” “it was the times”) is insidious because it allows people to effectively…

And then the it’s/its conundrum.

Since it’s a small school, maybe that’s as high as the scale goes?

She should have said “I can’t, I’m married to the sea,” then jumped overboard.

P.S. I can 100% guarantee that more right-wingers work on their cars and know this stuff than the left-wingers do. Also, if you had any of the liberal morning shows do this, they surely would have done far worse.

The argument here isn’t “you’re not allowed to dislike Taylor Swift,” but “it’s disingenuous to pretend Taylor Swift’s music is intellectually beneath you, or requires less talent or emotional purity than the music you like/make.” (Or, sure, that it “brings down your poem to a level that’s too mundane.”) I don’t…

But of course it’s not easy to be Taylor Swift. But I think you can acknowledge that while still saying that you think her music isn’t very good. “Taylor Swift” is a machine. A machine that runs on a lot of moving parts. Part of it is the music she puts out and part of it is a carefully constructed image she maintains…

I have to admit, I started reading the article thinking “Kaputt is better than anything Taylor Swift has ever put out- this guy’s just scrounging for something to write about.” But I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment: There’s something inherently disingenuous about indie acts claiming they’re not making music…

Here are the surnames of the last seven presidents of Notre Dame: Jenkins, Malloy, Hesburgh, Cavanagh, O’Donnell, O’Hara, O’Donnell. Those sound pretty Irish!

Well, when Indiana conquers Ireland, kills most of the population, and espouses a policy of exiling the remainder to the shittiest part of Wexford, we’ll have a chat, junior.

Life Imitates “Wheels, Ontario”

Gary Gnu agrees

Do you think before his last meeting, he wrote in his notebook, “Game Over”?

This has literally nothing to do with the article, but I just realized that pleaded is actually the correct past tense and that pled is only a word because people used it too many times.

So...bad at murder? And bad at trafficking? Dude’s got to work on his crossover.

This article, which features interviews with two of the writers of the sketch, discusses why the setting of a Texas HS football town was used. Specifically, it was done as a means of situating the satirical depiction of sporting rape culture within a familiar setting, namely the critically acclaimed television show Fri…

“Lighten up, it’s called whistling past the graveyard”

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