Archive for July, 2018
I’m a bit pressed for time this week, but I wanted to call your attention to a recent tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old educator/activist/community organizer (for Bernie Sanders) and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who has been endorsed by various progressive and civil rights organizations (e.g., BLM, MoveOn) and individuals. […]
“[E]xplore the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers, down to the most deliciously trivial detail.” Don’t worry, you’re on the right blog. Not long ago on my “Heroes and Aliens” pop-culture blog, I shared three posts in which I presented some material from the book The Law of Superheroes (2012) by […]
Since I am working on other stuff, I have another guest commentary from a Facebook friend for you this week. Brendan Paul Burnett teaches High School History, Geography, and “Christian Principles and Relationships” at a Christian school in Australia, while he works on his THIRD and FOURTH Master’s degrees — MTeach(Sec) and MDiv. He had […]
“Gallup reports that just 32 percent of Democrats call themselves ‘extremely proud’ of their national identity, compared with 74 percent of Republicans who say the same.” — Ben Shapiro, Newsweek The amount of anti-American sentiment these days is truly amazing. Even those who benefit from the (relative) freedoms and wealth of American society and business […]
“I sought there [in America] an image of democracy itself, its tendencies, its character, its prejudices, its passions; I wanted to know democracy, if only to know at least what we must hope or fear from it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America I’m no political historian, but if I had to guess, I’d […]