My brother over the last year or so has fallen hard into an extreme-libertarian, "Statism is Slavery" strain of political ideology that makes any kind of rational discourse very difficult. I accept the validity of anarchism inherently, but with the understanding that such a society would have to exist on a small…

I understand it, too. But why are those the only two options? When does a preferred overreaction become the accepted norm?

Case in point: the Yale fiasco yesterday. I live in New Haven, and my girlfriend works at the university so I was getting pretty up-to-date news about the lockdown.
For those who didn't hear: Monday morning someone made an anonymous phone call from a phone booth way off of Yale campus that their roommate had a gun and…

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
I MISSED THE SPECIALS TOUR

It's like the time I wrote a riff* for the band I was in in high school, which I thought was awesome until everyone pointed out that it was only ever-so-slightly different from the main guitar line in Papa Roach's "Last Resort." That was sad.

Really? I don't see the appeal.

Yeah, well if he's being racist then why isn't there a White Entertainment Television? Checkmate!

Well, okay.