Forgive, Don’t Forget

Hey baby, do you ask yourself sometimes what you need to be forgiven? Everything that you’ve ever done wrong is the reason that I’m driven straight to you… -Counting Crows, High Life I have trouble with forgetting. Or, better put,…

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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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Gina Haspel and the 87%

A little over a week ago, in the wake of mass outrage over the confirmation of Gina Haspel, avowed torturer as the new Director of the CIA, I asked myself a question. Then, I asked 71 of my closest friends.…

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Let’s Talk About Norms, Baby

Content warning: language, sex and sexual encounters, sexual coercion, rape and rape culture In thinking about how I would compose this post, which is largely about Aziz Ansari and his exposure in the recent, universally-read Babe.net article, it occurred to…

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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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Haunted City

It’s Twelfth Night. Happy Twelfth Night, everybody! Here is my favorite song about Twelfth Night: It occurs to me that posting links to things isn’t really good enough for the long-term posterity of the web. Sometimes I review old posts…

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One Nation Under Hate

I guess I shouldn’t have targeted Donald Trump so specifically. I guess that’s what really brought the vitriol out of the woodwork. When I launched the green Facebook profile pictures to support Muslims in America project two days ago, I…

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Go Green on Facebook to Support Muslims in America

I have a long rant about Donald Trump’s latest comments to make somewhere around here at some point, but I’m tabling that for now. Partially because so many people have a long rant about Donald Trump’s latest comments. It’s relieving…

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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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