My April 2019 Facebook Primary

Over the course of the last week, I’ve had a poll about the potential 2020 Democratic Party nominees open via Google Drive on my Facebook page. The poll was shared on my personal “timeline” as well as the page for…

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The Case Against Free Trade

I spend a lot of time arguing on Facebook. It comes and goes as a use of time. It’s often frustrating, but in the best moments, it feels like there’s a real opportunity to change someone’s mind. Facebook has become…

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What I Learned on My Day with Pro-Gun Facebookers

Yesterday, my recent post on mass-shootings and the second amendment garnered a wide response on Facebook. Most of it was from people who are rabidly pro-gun. What’s kind of fascinating about the experience is that I had forgotten there were…

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Pancakes Make Me Hungrier

That term: “pancakes make me hungrier” appears nowhere on the Internet as a phrase. Until now. I had pancakes for breakfast yesterday, the second time in about a week, at a place that New Orleanians seem to adore called the…

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Revisionist History

From time to time during the seven years of this blog’s existence, I’ve added new categories for indexing the various kinds of posts one sees on this page. I’ve long eschewed the notion of a specialized blogging pursuit, such as…

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Why No One is Voting

Turns out my Facebook feed is the exception. No one is voting in the United States. According to the New York Times, the elections earlier this month set a 72-year low for voter turnout, with 36.3% voting. (For context, Catalonia’s…

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