Tag: America
I laugh when I skim the channel guide and see that BBC America is airing The Patriot right now. #tv #america
bulshit new student loan rules start in 2 days?
If you are behind on payments, you may qualify for an Unemployment Deferment or an Economic Hardship Deferment, but be warned: These programs are being eliminated for loans initiated on or after July 1, 2027. Forbearance will be limited to a maximum of nine months every two years for loans funded on or after July...
BRIDGES ARE SOCIALISM
The great MetLife Stadium walking debate, why a bridge is not about crossing a road, but because bridges are socialism.
VIVE LA DÉMOCRATIE
Vive la démocratie! From the Illuminati to technocrats, why every generation reinvents the same debate about who deserves to run the world.
IDIOTS GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE
Christian Zionism, prophecy, the apocalypse, and why you might just not be the good guys in this little story.
SEVEN KINGS
Revelation’s seven kings echo across history, and if you're counting, you're playing your last hand.
THE PENDULUM SWING
Cancel culture began as accountability but became a cultural pendulum - from #MeToo reckonings to overzealous witch hunts, DEI backlash, and ideological whiplash. How cancel culture turned into society’s favourite tantrum.
PRIVILEGED OPPRESSION
How privilege mistakes equality for oppression, tracing the cry of “socialism” from slavery to civil rights to Trump-era politics.
THE BADDIES
The Baddies in fake news, propaganda, and why history’s villains always lose
POLITICAL ENSHITTIFICATION
Political Enshittification as Oligarchy, - lobbying replaces competition in capitalism, but for technology, removing innovation also removes relevance.
Run, Hide, Fight
I don't know how many options we have right now. Survival is victory.
Run, Hide, Fight
I don't know how many options we have right now. Survival is victory.
Run, Hide, Fight
I don't know how many options we have right now. Survival is victory.
American stories
Two stories a century apart explore the immigrant experience.
Boone Hall
Boone Hall could do a much better job of owning up to its slave-owning past and educating people about civil rights, but it's too busy selling tickets to view the Big House and patting itself on the back for being gracious to tourists.
USS Yorktown
The USS Yorktown, a decommissioned WWII-era aircraft carrier, is probably only worthwhile to the staunchest of naval warfare fans.
The Lack of Data
An exploration of what we choose to track, and what we don't – and what that means if we want to make the world a better place
The Fourth Of Why
Why is America’s Independence Day celebrated on July 4, despite strong evidence the independence took place on a different day?
America The Processed
One of the broadest possible geographic terms is, for now, the new name of Budweiser. Does Budweiser deserve \"America,\" and if not, what does?
Hay, Blinken!
Abraham Lincoln may be the greatest president ever … in terms of the crazy cultural crap he inspires.