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These words were written by Malachi Ritscher (pictured above) shortly before he set himself on fire. On an early November morning in Chicago, he brought a can of gasoline and a book of matches before an audience of rush-hour commuters, and performed his own coup de grace. When his protest of the United […]

There’s a Mooninite across the street from my apartment here in NYC–and it’s been there for weeks–but somehow none of us in this fair city thought to call 911, worried that it was going to attempt to kill us.
To the city of Boston, I would just like to point out that no one would design […]

I’ve been incredibly busy as of late hunting for an apartment (conveniently, it’s the worst time in history to be in the market in New York), but, feeling an urge to post something, I dug this out of my abandoned-posts archive and added a poll to the end (which you should skip to, if you […]

Why not? With their youth and charisma, they’d be a shoo-in.
Oh wait… apparently some Democrats (still) don’t understand the way the two-party system works. See, if you split from your own party, you take votes away from… nevermind.

It’s been a serendipitous day. First, the college buddy I’m staying with in Connecticut got All the President’s Men in the mail from Netflix. Alan Pakula’s influential 1976 film (based on the book) profiled Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s hard-working journalistic muckraking (sans internet, cell phones, or computers in general), which uncovered Watergate […]