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Dolph Lundgren is The Smartest Man in Hollywood
So if you read Cracked you probably already know that Dolph Lundgren started life as a big nerd. He is not just one of the meat-head, tough guys he has become so famous for playing in action flick...
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The Passing of an Icon and of the Chance to Change the Dialogue
Love him or hate him there was no denying that Hugo Chavez was an icon. Upon the announcement of his death from cancer yesterday the internet was abuzz with opinion, most of it unflattering, a large...
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Killing Us With Kindness
OK folks, time to discuss memes again. I am seriously considering creating an entire feature dedicated to deconstructing memes, at least the political ones. I’d like to say that it was only right-wing,...
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What An Ally Looks Like
I have, and shall continue to, called out the bad behavior of people who want to be allies to the LGBTQ or any other cause. It is easy to call yourself and ally, to wrap yourself up in convenient...
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Pictures Worth No Words
If I have a favorite kind of meme it would be the infographic. The idea that a complex issue can be summed up in a few data points is laughable at best. Add to it that the creators of these memes, as...
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Fast-tracking Anger
The world can sometimes be a frightening and frustrating place. It is understandable that some of us give in to the urge to lash out at the obvious evil in the world. We want to see bad people...
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Whose Side Are They On Anyway?
Today we are both beneficiaries and victims of an information glut. This amazing tool, the internet, and all the tools we use to connect to it, allow us to find information with a few keystrokes that...
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We Are All Diogenes
Social Network websites are a little older than Facebook. Indeed they are almost two decades old now, though those earliest services were very basic in what they offered. As they have evolved, as our...
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The Ump’s A Hoser
It pains me to say this, because I still believe that honestly examined, thorough data gathering is an important tool in discovery, but reading your average Twitter of Facebook feed reminds me of the...
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Slut Shaming in the Name of Love
Yesterday was a very unproductive day. Sorry I had no post for you. I had no fire to fuel me. I had no creative juices for short stories and I could not find the focus to pull out my SJW sword....
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The Will To Sustain Ignorance
Until this week I had never heard anyone from the right attack Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, the Tulane professor and MSNBC news show host who has brought to television a show that combines pathos and good...
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Vulgarity Is In The Eye of The Beholder, and The Beholder is Blind
So this weekend the FCC loosened its rules about profanity when Boston Red Sox star David “Big Papi” Ortiz gave an impassioned speech honoring the strength of the city that had just gone through so...
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Debate Shouldn’t Be a Battle
Later today (or earlier today depending on when you read this) I will be on TMI with Aldous Tyler on Madison Student Radio. My segment will be dealing with the state of political dialogue in this...
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Sicking Sensationalism on the Dogs
Reading the news this morning I came across a story that made me sad and curious at the same time. An 80-year-old man in South Carolina, a double amputee, had been killed by roaming dogs. Aside from...
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Avoiding The Rabbit Hole
I would like to thank Amanda Marcotte for inspiring this post with her wonderful article about misogynists in the Atheist community. More importantly I want to thank her for her handling of people like...
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Pay No Attention To The Men Behind The Curtains
Sometimes I feel like I’ve stumbled into Oz. No, not the old cable TV show about prison life, but Mssr. Baum’s fantasy world. There are times where what I read, hear, and watch does not quite seem...
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Fleeing Mecca
Islamophobia in America is not new. It was not even new right after the events of 9/11. It could be easy enough to trace it back to the sixties and the birth of the PLO, and it is accurate enough to do...
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Gorging on Nothing
Apparently there was no chemical attack in Syria. Children are not starving here in the United States. Environmental ruin is not a problem. We do not have to worry about economic collapse here or...
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Sinead and Miley and Who Really Gives A Damn
OK, I know I am getting to this a couple of days (OK a whole week) late but I have been mulling the brouhaha last week between teen pop idol Miley Cyrus and former star Sinead O’Connor in my head. Much...
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So Many Broken Pieces (TW: Multiple Issues)
A few weeks ago I posted about an upheaval in my life. In it I wrote about the need to forgive everyone involved, including ourselves. I made a point not to mention the crime or the guilty party...
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