Month: November 2014

There is nothing more boring and cringeworthy than reading every bobblehead’s post-mortem of an election. Last night, I was at my local bar, watching sportsball on one TV, the Country Music Awards on another [and by the...

My first, kind of visceral, reaction to the shocking and disappointing election returns was that white America, particularly white men, had just thrown a massive temper tantrum. I could further refine this to white Americans...

From The Guardian, How Republican Michael Grimm turned a federal indictment into a ticket back to Congress* The year had not been kind to him: in January, he threatened to throw a reporter from local TV station NY1 off the...

In the feature piece The New Segregation which appears in the November/December issue of the Washington Monthly, Carl Chancellor and Richard D. Kahlenberg use Montgomery County, Maryland as a kind of lab experiment to determine...

And for those of you that want to go waaaay back and don’t mind some ugly, here’s SSD: Punk rock overnight for the insomniacs.