Some things have changed since 2004.

Yeah, it means they can keep people serfs to companies like Walmart. “You don’t need an education”, then “you don’t deserve to be paid well if you don’t have an education/skills”.

You can probably get them from your local library, too if you want to hold off spending the $30.

The first season of that show dealt with the aftermath of Will making those comments. It’s actually pretty good. It’s Sorkian, to be sure, but if you disregard all the personal drama of the characters and focus on Jeff Daniels’ character holding newsmakers accountable, it’s a political junkie’s wet dream.

That’s just another spoke in the wheel of the US propaganda machine.

I hear ya. I’m old too and when I listen to younger friends describe the experiences they have with their childrens’ schools, I am just amazed. Here in Indiana we actually have a shortage of teachers now, due to the pay, to education becoming more of a “learn how to pass a test” than acquiring knowledge, and to the…

Have at it :)

I think the percentage of people who don’t employ critical thinking has probably stayed about the same throughout the ages. We just hear more about the idiots because they make better sound bites on television than people who don’t foam at the mouth over “getting our country back” or “preserving the glory of our…

Please ignore Panhandlinpaul. He is a current Gawker employee who’s name I will not reveal.

Here’s the problem: I doubt there was any detectable level of cognizance in the first place. THAT is the real issue!

Can’t say I have. I have many friends who make it a point of trying to do something with a straight guy (sttraiggt in the terms saying they’re straight), and many are successful. I couldn’t put a number on it, nor would I, but its not my thing. I don’t find a straight guy sexier than a gay guy, nor would I seek it…

Wow, did he seriously suffer from cogitive dissonance right there? He really blamed Obama for cutting food stamps? Didn’t the Republicans try to paint Obama as the Food Stamp president, since he wants to spend all that money on food stamps, according to them? Is he just going to vote for the white guy politician, no…

The New Testament actually says precisely the opposite, but I doubt these people can read. So.

Oh yes, I read that whole steaming pile. Every not-worth-reading, did-he-even-read-this word of it. The nicest thing one could say is nice trolling.

America/Jesusland

Apropos; did you read David Brooks criticize Coates’ writing for “excessive realism”? That guy is such a fucking troll (Brooks) that I almost enjoy it. Almost.

“There is nothing uniquely evil in these destroyers or even in this moment. The destroyers are merely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interpreting its heritage and legacy. This legacy aspires to the shackling of black bodies. It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, …

I know but its realism, you know? I love Ta Nehisi Coates because he doesn’t fuck around about this, he’s like Rust Cohle from True Detective but as a columnist

Your sad post makes me sad blarg_sad_person :(

It speaks to the fact that liberal and conservative america are basically two different countries superimposed that these arguments are still going on. Raegan wasn’t wrong about the silent majority. Us gawkeratis are essentially a loud minority in an ocean of megachurch based parochialism :/