I can see how a black family plonking their toddler down on the knee of a fat white man pretending to be the ruler of the whitest piece of real estate on the planet, so the kid can beg him for school clothes under the menacing condition that he act right for a year. “Now smile while we stage a Vietcong-style propaganda picture, and you better goddamn look happy. Isn’t that darling? One or two pictures of a happy black child amongst a sea of blonde white kids, with his buttcheeks ominiously close to a white man’s cock, is all the validation we need to feel like we’ve already done more than enough for those people.

    Debating is both the most satisfying and most irritating task one can engage in. The reason is simple: facts have nothing to do whatsoever with whether or not a battle is won, and it’s why in many ways, war is far more satisfying. Victory can be achieved by eliminating an opponent either by injury or capitulation. It’s a fairly undebatable outcome, and if you’re the one who has to make a choice between death and doing what your opponent says, you know exactly whether it’s the gold medal or a noose being placed around your neck at the award ceremony. It also has the added benefit of ending an argument, and doing so in your favor regardless of how severely you were being verbally flayed alive.

 I was selected as a precinct delegate for the Democratic convention, which I attended today. I sat through several fairly boring speeches, respectable final pleas from candidates whose future would be decided that day by little slips of paper stuffed into large, blue metal boxes with slots that were distinctly reminiscent of anything but the 21st century. 

"The intention was to establish the United States military as one in which every adult male meeting that description would be a citizen soldier"

The worst part about discussing the Second Amendment is the ease with which opponents of gun control are argued into a corner. Fundamentally, there are only two cases to be made: either “A well ordered Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, will not be infringed” is completely unbounded, or it has boundaries that we as a theoretically civil society have an obligation to identify and evolve.