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Road Journal, Part II

Road Journal, Part II

The West, Part II

Further into the flat dry plains of the New Mexico desert, my bride and I pushed our tinny little old Japanese shitbox car. The effects of what little food I had ingested … Read more…

Road Journal, Part I

Road Journal, Part I

My drive cross-country from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh can be easily divided into two categories, The West and The South.
The West

Wars? Poverty? What? BEER FUCK YEAH!!

Wars? Poverty? What? BEER FUCK YEAH!!

A submission by  Bethania Palma Markus
 
A good friend recently presented me with a Change.org petition demanding Spencer’s quit making misogynistic T-shirts, after the Internet sleuths at Buzzfeed found these beauties.
Not familiar with Spencer’s? Lucky you. … Read more…

Syria’s homemade tank

Fiscal Cliff Realities for College Students

Fiscal Cliff Realities for College Students

A student writing her college loan on the Debt Bubble at the Occupy Wall Street in New York
The “Fiscal Cliff” is not simply hyperbole leftover from the Presidential campaign. It’s an impending disaster that will … Read more…

Shocking: Pat Robertson’s imaginary friend was wrong about the election

Shocking: Pat Robertson’s imaginary friend was wrong about the election

Now that we’ve had some time to reflect on the election, I think the biggest story to come out of it has to be the right-wing’s complete divorce from reality. Anything to do with statistics, … Read more…

How Iceland Defeated the Bankers

How Iceland Defeated the Bankers

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGOUND
“The Icelandic Revolution has not been televised” says the internet meme and many like it. Well so are many anti-government protests nowadays, but it is true that what has happened in Iceland since … Read more…

The GOP must change or die, part II

The GOP must change or die, part II

Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Max Planck, who originated quantum theory once said…
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, … Read more…

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