against the world

my political, occasionally apolitical, even anti-political blog, that occasionally includes various speeches and essays i do or school (mostly because they all tend to be political in some fashion)

Sunday, November 13, 2016

a new march on washington

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Short version: I imagine a massive crowd gathers on inauguration day, no violence, no noise, maybe a few anti-Trump, anti-hate signs. They ...

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

can't we all just burn it down?

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On the other hand, when geographic lines are not as clear as they may have been at the start of the American Civil War, why the hell should...

can't we all just get along?

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What to some feels like tacit approval of sexism, of racism, bigotry, sexual assault, religious discrimination, bullying, the politics of in...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

on refugees and inner cities

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More victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels today. Muslims again, so of course, some blame the religion. Just as we blame blacks for the v...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

[Trumbo - movie review] you can't do that. this is america

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(Cross-posted between my daily Groundhog Day Project movie blog and my far-less-regularly updated Against the World political blog.) The...

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

a brief thing about "feminism"

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It bugs me when my kids think the term feminism is a negative. Wanting everyone to be equal is all well and good, but equalist just ain...

Friday, June 19, 2015

don't. shoot. him.

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In response to the shooter Dylann Roof--a white supremacist who murdered nine black people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston--being ta...

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