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America Opinion

The Media Created Trump and His Voters

Liberals ensured that he would win. I called it for Trump months ago — they said I was wrong. Like Hillary’s foreign policy of pouring bombs over burning countries, she attempted to counter Trump’s hate-filled campaign with a kind of liberal offensive. All the accusations of sexual assault, racism, and general idiocy against him and […]

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Monologue Opinion Profile Theatre

We’ve Been Trumped

Mike Daisey deals the Trump card to lift the curse of the white liberal. This review of The Trump Card, performed last Sunday at Newmark Theatre, attempts to build a narrative concerning the artist in connection to his subject while conveying an editorial that threads it all together. It will contain story spoilers. Do not […]

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Philosophy Stories War & Peace

Birds Eating Birds

Death as Concept, Death as Survival, Death as Distant Reality. The first time I became aware of the concept of death was from the tag on a hair dryer. “Warn children about the danger of death from electrocution,” it read, under a cute rendering of a bathtub with lightning bolts all around it. As long-haired […]

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America Current Events Opinion

Vote for Whoever the F%k You Want To.

It’s time to change the system at the root. Seems like this election year, the people are more obsessed than ever with their presidential candidate. More than that, the tone is panic, induced by the possibility of the other being elected. Everyone on Facebook has become a political pundit. Seems like everywhere I turn, someone is […]

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Current Events Satire Travel

Out for an Evening Scroll

Where there is a place to go online there is a place online to go. Google is its usual flat rainbow of primary colors today. No holiday, no inventor’s birthday. I go to Facebook where I can see my family; Bernie and Hillary are there, and the silent screams of fingers heard around the web are […]