The Goat Pen

This article examines the symbolic whiteness associated with pumpkins in the contemporary United States. Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte, a widely circulated essay in McSweeney’s on “Decorative Gourd Season,” pumpkins in aspirational lifestyle magazines, and the reality television show Punkin Chunki...

I like Bernie because he's the only major candidate that used the language Americans need to hear as far as changing government to work for everyone, not just the rich. Capitalism by its very nature creates highly polarized wealth disparities and requires systematic wealth redistribution, especially...

crashcourse wrote:I wish that was your last bit

I do too. That was a hell of an act.

The good news is that it looks like Hillary is going to be the best hope for the neoliberals to regain power in 2020 and that's probably not going to happen. The bad news, aside from the fact that we're not done looking at her soulless and personality-less skank ass on TV, is that there are plenty o...

what advantage is there to be gained in rural Kentucky? I'm serious when I say that. Is racism in rural America holding anyone back when the whites aren't even progressing? You're right. Nowadays everyone, white folk included, is being pushed downward into a Dickensian lower middle class so the few...

More like Sheldon Wolin.

Yes it's about making money. Fragmenting the masses along identity/cultural lines is unfortunately profitable in and of itself because people are easily sucked into hating others that are different, especially when they're told they are the victims, which is happening on both sides (side note it's a...

That's what the two party system does. You're programmed from birth to pick a side and root your ass off for the one of your choosing and the other side is responsible for all the problems in the country. Dems are always liberals and left by definition, despite the fact that both sides are now way o...

I actually kinda like Rachel Maddow. She is a rare liberal talking head that is capable of smiling. Luckily I don't watch MSNBC ever so I don't have to suffer this unholy cross between Bronson Pinchot and John Stewart. I do like Big Eddie though. Used to listen to his radio show. He was on point a ...

Norm Macdonald's last stand up bit on Letterman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFjEvl43zYY

The MSM being firmly entrenched w/the establishment should scare the sh!t out of everybody. If you get your information from a news outlet that is owned by a multinational corporation, you are being manipulated and lied to. Even MSNBC is establishment and ultimately right wing. It's not an accident...

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/DJIj1dyVAAAQL86.jpg The rising strength and potential impact of the hurricanes in the Atlantic basin has weather experts concerned, as global temperatures continuing to hit record highs. Global warming, which isn’t necessarily causing the formation of hurrica...

Hillary won't get the 20 nomination She's been busy over the last 6 months preparing a fake ass narrative as to why she lost. It's very clear that she felt she deserved the White House. I have a theory that she is almost as big a narcissist as Trump, but she's smarter so she hides it better. They b...

Vagina/Deadskin-Dave, keeper of the Tom Brady flame. Will forever hound Peyton for only winning 5 league MYPs and multiple SBs. The real hatred should be for Aaron Rogers. Arguably the second most talented QB of this era and only 1 Superbowl with plenty of skill players and adequate defense. You ki...

the definition of liberal and progressive has change dramatically in the last 30 years. As has conservative They've all evolved over time and have multiple meanings but it's terms like "liberal", "left", and to a lesser extent "progressive" that are being branded by ri...

"What I did not see is a car plowing through a crowd nor did I see anyone shooting at one of the protesters both of which happened in Charlottesville, as you know." Nor did Trump say there are some very fine folks on the left like he did with the alt right. An anti-fascist group popping up...

Music that makes you contemplate your place in the solar system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow18a-CkLN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4 I don't care for Ryan Gosling in the role but this should still be pretty good. If you saw the original trailer, the line used to be "every civilization was built off the back of a disposable war force". That's the most dangerous language ever t...

The new deal had a bunch of ideas that failed. You could also argue that the advent of the war, putting thousands of men on the government script with women at home going to the factories to take their place pulled the country out of the depressions, and after winning the war, being the only manufa...

One thing I wish Republican voters understood is that the New Deal worked. Putting disposable income into the hands of the middle class made our economy thrive. It was the most successful period in American history. But unfettered greed took over. 37 years of tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of W...