Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America About a year ago, I wrote about Carnival and Lent as a metaphor for America’s eternal cultural divide. I said, basically, that it all started with the Puritans and their Lenten self-renouncing rigidity vs the Southerners and their Carnival-esque…
People these days have a tendency to comfort themselves (or steel their courage) by talking about being on the ‘right side of history.’ I have no objection…
(Part 2 in a series. See Part 1 here.) Only way you’re ever gonna get revenge though is to stop submitting to the rich white motherfuckers that…
(Part 1 of 2. See Part 2 here. So here are things I’m told about the typical American white man: I’m not going to argue with any…
The really short story is that Trump and the Republicans passed a tax and spending bill this year that taxes you to spend on benefits for the…