I’ve seen your comments here and 99 percent of the time I vehemently disagree with you, but you’re absolutely correct on this. As a leftist, feminist, and gay dude, it’s beyond infuriating to watch the vast majority of commenters here defend a religious and political belief system that despises everything about us and…

I have an honest question as an American leftist. Why is Islam immune from any kind of structural criticism? If a right wing Christian fanatic had committed a similarly heinous attack, we would rightly pillory both him and the regressive belief system that motivated him. While any kind of racism or attacks on…

Colonialism and imperialism are hilarious charges to levy at the West, considering that the entire history of Islam is one of war, conquest, and forced conversion. Let me guess, Turkish expansion into Europe, the Arab drive into The Levant and North Africa, and the historical East African and current South Asian slave…

If you’re so dense and regressive that you think basic, universal human rights are “western colonialism”, then I don’t even know where to begin. Feminism is a western concept too.

If ICE doesn’t have a judicial warrant, they have zero right to enter homes, schools, places of business, or anywhere else and should be firmly and emphatically told to fuck off.

The Palmer Report is wish fulfillment fake news. We are not the right, don’t be a gullible idiot because you desperately want something to be true.

I stayed with friends in Treme and mostly hung out in the Garden District, Uptown, and at Jazz Fest. I avoided Bourbon St like the plague after the first day when I was constantly solicited by prostitutes and drug dealers and stepped over vomit in the gutter far too often for my delicate sensibilities.

I wouldn’t say trip is the right word, but it can do some weird shit. I smoked some high powered medical weed after quitting and not having smoked for about 2 years and felt like I was in a Jimmy Hendrix song afterwards. The walls were slightly wavy and there was a weird synthesis of sound and color. I used to love…

Thank you! I’ve never felt like more a Yankee and been happier to live up North than after spending a week in that sewer. The city might have cool architecture, but it’s dirty and disgusting, the people are excruciatingly slow and complete layabouts, Cajun accents sound moronic, and the humidity is stifling. Fuck New…

This is “speak(ing) in great detail”? It’s nothing than banal and retrodden neoliberal platitudes. I get that people are happy Le Pen lost, but let’s not turn this empty suit and technocrat into some avatar of liberalism like this site does with Merkel. It’s embarrassing and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of…

I understand where you’re coming from and mostly agree, but there’s nothing bland or centrist about radical neoliberals like Macron.

Here’s where you lose me. Uber drivers are undoubtedly employees that the company disingenuously categorizes as “contractors” in order to shirk labor laws. They perform a service and are responsible for obeying the dictates of corporate if they want to make a livelihood. Additionally, Uber merely made minimal changes…

But you presumably have a degree, a work history, colleagues and supervisors who can act as references, and some sort of marketable skill, all of which can help you obtain similar employment in the future if you’re laid off or your company folds. All of which is a bit more secure than “I spent the last five years of…

Yep, exactly. Of course, when you needed time off, you were all of a sudden scheduled for 35 hours during the times you explicitly told the manager you had class. I also cried the first day after cleaning drains for three hours. That job is miserable and I can’t fathom how people stay there for an extended period of…

Anecdotes are not data. I worked at a super busy Starbucks in downtown Miami during undergrad. We averaged about a dollar per hour per employee in tips. I imagine it would be far less elsewhere.

Dude, no one is happy to see to you. Its fucking retail. You’re paid just enough to refrain from raising the black flag, start slitting throats, and burning the store to the ground. As someone who worked at a Starbucks during undergrad, she probably hates you slightly less than most customers, which is nice, but isn’t…

How on earth did you miss the opportunity to embed a Hawk Harrelson home run call, visiting team or not, on a series of posts meant to troll your readership? Give it up pal, and leave this to Marchman and Adler.

Off the top of my head, I know he’s proposed criminalizing adultery and banning the sale and consumption of alcohol in certain areas, which may not be explicitly religious dictates, but have their roots in religious tradition. Unfortunately, I lack the time to look into the manner in depth right now (grad school,…

I wanted to add this, because I think you made your point well, even though I disagree. I think we have a duty to criticize and oppose drifts towards religious conservatism in any government, whether Islamic, Christian, Jewish, or otherwise. Whether its Washington, Ankara, Beijing or elsewhere, religious political…

Ataturk would be rolling in his grave not for some supposed love of democracy, but because of Erdogan’s Islamist conservatism and erosion of the secular, relatively liberal, military-backed order. I have no love for Mustafa Kemal, being the grandson of a woman who fled Smyrna as a child during the Greco-Turkish war,…