If you look at Haiti, they had to get a loan from the US and others to pay France for winning it’s freedom. The country had it’s vaults raided at the behest of American banks worried about being repaid. For decades American and European countries refused to trade with them. Then America undercut their rice and sugar…

That reminds me of the one logic class I took. It was a freshman level course, and overall was perfectly fine except...almost every example was framed within the context of the abortion debate. Pretty much everyone in the class grasped that we were studying the structure of the arguments, not the topic of the…

My father taught undergrad history up until last year at San Marcos State in Texas, and I would often ask him this same question, since my major was history and I felt it was pretty fun to pick his brain.

I currently use Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings (Ramage, Bean, and Johnson) for my primary Rhet/Comp courses (I also teach Literature, Critical Theory, and a couple of other offshoots). The most current edition is the 10th, but most of what gets updated between editions are the supplementary readings…

I soooo wish I took a class like yours...I am terrible at confrontation and when someone spouts off about something I’m pretty sure isn’t sound, I have a hard time remembering what I know and where I read it in the moment. I think the US would be a better place if everyone took a rhetoric or debate class and…

So, I teach Rhet/Comp (argumentative logic in a written capacity) at the college level, and have for the last twelve years.

The level of obfuscation, dissemblance, and general reliance on logical fallacies that this administration continues to engage in is absolutely flabbergasting. I’m no political pundit, but I do…

We call him “Machine-gun Greitens” out here. He’s a Trump acolyte. His entire campaign was basically: machismo, I’m a vet, and freedom. That’s it. He never had any positions other than being conservative, whatever the fuck that means.

But, the Dems deserved to lose. Chris Koster, his opponent was another law and order…

Dude, how could you not reference this?

I remember reading a article a while back (though I can’t find it now) about how laundry pods are actually a real danger to people with dementia. I guess you can reach a point where you’re mentally aware enough to recognize that it looks like candy, but not mentally aware enough to stop eating when it doesn’t *taste*…

Totally agree with that. One thing though...I think she has the space if she wanted it, but she doesn’t want to deal with anything privately. She’s determined to lash out as publicly as possible. I wish she’d work this out in therapy and then figure out how to move forward productively. She doesn’t have to be best…

Pretty much. To me this isn’t gender disparity so much as more proof that Mark Wahlberg is willing to be a mega-dick and take advantage of the producer’s desperation in order to get that paper.

Not even, here’s the relevant passage, “Catt was focused on daytime. Jason Kennedy is on prime, evening news, plus red carpet.”

You are totally that guy.

I get that Rose McGowan has a unique place in this horrifying story and I’m reluctant to judge her because of it, but I feel like she’s attacking EVERYONE for not being pure enough.

Yes. I sit amongst women 10-20 years older than me (at least). All white, all upper middle class and all scoffed at me when I said it was a disgrace none of the men who won at the Globes addressed their colleagues, who were engaged in a protest in that very room. “Why should they?”

I don’t know about social class, but I do think a lot of women over a certain age are having a problem simply because in their generation, it was just how it was. And if something happened, they didn’t and wouldn’t have even thought about saying anything, because society wouldn’t have cared if it did. Or blamed them.…

I wonder if part of this is about women who would rather believe they were seduced than assaulted. It’s often easier to act like you were a willing participant than accept the reality. And if you are a woman of a certain age, it had to be damn near impossible to escape predators.

God this sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.

The juiciest quotes are completely believable.