The Tea Party's 'realishness'
I am a new member of this community, though I've been lurking for a few years now. Throughout, I was concurrently conducting research for my sociology MA thesis on the Tea Party and the rise of the...
View ArticleWho, the people?
At the end of August, I published my first diary, an excerpt from my thesis on the Obama-era Hysterical Right. I'd been a lurker for a few years, and spent a lot of time here during the 2012 election...
View ArticleZimmerman: jingo painter extraordinaire
I searched the front page for a diary on this, but nothing turned up. My apologies if there's already one.Witness his masterpieces.So Zimmy has apparently taken up painting as a "creative, way to...
View ArticleN-word tirade in parking lot [updated]
I searched high and low for a diary on this and found nothing.Janelle Ambrosio, of Cheektowaga, NY, flipped out on a black man — he says for starting his car, she claims he hit her kids with the car or...
View ArticleThe stages of what happens when there's injustice against black people
I came across this on my Facebook feed and thought it worth sharing:The stages of what happens when there's injustice against black peopleThey are:Stage 1: Another Black person is beat up, arrested or...
View ArticleTitle VII religious-based SSM exemptions: Columbia Law says no
The Columbia Law School's Center for Gender & Sexuality Law has issued a memorandum (PDF) on "Proposed Conscience or Religion-Based Exemption for Public Officials to Solemnize Marriages."(Americans...
View Article"Sincerely-held religious beliefs" will cost Hood County $44,000
Hood County, TX Clerk Katie Lang's refusal to issue a marriage license to same-sex couple Jim Cato and Joe Stapleton based on her (ostensibly) sincerely-held religious beliefs is going to cost...
View ArticleBREAKING: Trump calls for total ban on Arabic numerals in U.S.
RANDOLPH, NH. Speaking before a crowd of thousands and thousands in Randolph, New Hampshire (population: 310), Donald Trump today called for a total ban on Arabic numerals in the United States. Below...
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