together, in a sense

I’ve been reading — as a somewhat guilty pleasure, given how bombastic it is — Charlie Pierce’s politics blog over at Esquire. At the end of October, he critiqued Kim Brooks’s qualms about defriending people who post things like “Just turned off the t.v. More lies from B. Hussein Obama.” This sort of unfriending happens [...]

For nearly a month now, I’ve been obligated to write a post explaining the rules of Palace Ball (during times of heightened nationalism, it may also be called Freedom Ball). There isn’t a whole lot to it beyond what you see in the above video, but it works roughly as follows: You can play on [...]