House Republicans torpedoed a measure to honor a trailblazing Black judge in Florida because he once enforced the First Amendment.
One of the more under-examined facets of the modern American conservative movement is the tactic of being a colossal dick simply for the sake of being a colossal dick. (Some experts trace this phenomenon back to former Senator Rick Santorum.) The energy behind this tactic is very often the inherent structural racism that has charged American conservative politics ever since it allied itself with the remnants of American apartheid in the mid-1960s. It has been a long march, but recent events have made clear that the time of those remnants has come around at last. So American conservatives can be colossal dicks just to be colossal dicks. Take a hint, and finally take it home. It's time to invest in a solid pair of shades. Start here. Casey works at Wendy's every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. On Saturday, he sleeps in and on Sunday, he goes to Petland to play with the puppies that are for sale. On Wednesdays, he goes to church. The timelines of those days are, of course, equally important as the days themselves. Casey leaves the house at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays so he can have a footlong sandwich at Subway for dinner. Then he walks to church and greets everyone before the service starts at 6. At 8, someone in our family picks him up, runs him by the gas station to purchase two 20-ounce Cokes for the following day, and only then does he come home to relay the message of the week to my mom and dad. Plenty of imitators have tried to match the heights of our No. 1, but none have come close. Standard Issue teamed up with the league for a one-and-done, 75th-anniversary capsule collection. Sal Mineo was a young sensation in Rebel Without a Cause but his career proved to be rocky and his death, downright tragic. The late director recalled his friend in a 1978 essay for Esquire. |
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