Author Archives: Max West

CNN Special on Social Media & Teens

From the CNN special that just aired on (evil) social media’s impact on teens, I had these thematic takeaways: Social media = a barometer of popularity for teens Social media = the 50+ year old sociological concept of the ‘imaginary … Continue reading

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An MRI on TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a 12-nation global trade pact, of which Obozo and the vast majority of GOP, Inc (including most the GOP POTUS contenders) support. In a Breitbart article titled “Jeff Sessions: Obamatrade Can Be Killed“, is a … Continue reading

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Camp of the Saints – Quote #14

Let’s give ear, in passing, to this discordant note. Good, canny common sense, a little uncouth and harsh—in other words, healthy— draws itself up to its dignified height and kicks up a fuss. Just a bit more effort and it … Continue reading

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Blackfoot – Train, Train (1979)

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Trump: ‘Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked’

And GOP elites wonder why the guy’s polling continues to rise: Donald Trump continues to court Second Amendment supporters in the wake of last week’s deadly shooting in Oregon, suggesting the teachers at Umpqua Community College should have been armed … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary

Here’s another observation — currently #1 in Politico — that’ll make you want to jump out a window (“Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary“): Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner. Thanks to … Continue reading

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Camp of the Saints – Quote #13

Albert Durfort was full of the milk of human kindness. (Machefer would have used a rather more vulgar expression. He always said the professional do-gooders turned his stomach. A little too harsh, perhaps, for Durfort, not a bad sort, really.) … Continue reading

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Camp of the Saints – Quote #12

Constant crusader, he would gallop through radioland to the rescue, looking for supposedly desperate causes, barely taking the time to change horses between two campaigns, always panting for breath as he came on the scene just in time to deliver … Continue reading

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France: How Far They Have Fallen

… Such that this becomes a career-ending ‘gaffe’: A French European MP was fighting for her political future on Wednesday after coming under attack for describing France as a country of “white race”. Nadine Morano, of the right-wing The Republicans … Continue reading

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#LaughingWhileBlack – Part 2

Remember the Sistahs on Reading Edge, whom I previously wrote about here? They be looking for a payday, now. Members of a mostly African American book club, booted from the Napa Valley Wine Train in August after they were accused … Continue reading

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