I don’t use my blog for two years, and then the dam breaks! ok, here we go… As a cultural theorist I sort of hate when people make broad sweeping generalizable statements. If you pay attention to posts I make, I tend to not use phrases like “straight white men” or “toxic masculinity”. Subcultures are…
The Bizzaro World, ©Tom Tomorrow, 2016 There’s something that has been on my mind the last couple days since I was having a conversation with Steph and I’ve been trying to figure it out. So I want to do a thought experiment and see what people’s feedback is. Ok, so Donald…
(This is going to be a long one… I’ve put off writing about this for a while.) So about two and a half months ago, America seemingly got really bored and decided to end itself… you know… cuz why not? At least that’s one view. Another view is that a small sect of megalomaniacal billionaires, the…
So I have some thoughts about superdelegates… If you hadn’t noticed by now, I’m kind of an election junkie. I love politics. I find them fascinating. You remember how much you hated social studies in school and how your eyes glazed over when you got p that all the civics bullshit? Not me. I loved it.…
Earlier today, my friend Shelby, posted a Facebook link to a pretty good analysis of American politics in terms of professional wrestling by Oliver Willis. It’s well written and very smart. Willis does an excellent job of breaking down the current political landscape and inserting it into his professional wrestling framework. I feel like my friends AJ, Dan, Patrick…
So I was sitting down and working on my thoughts on the current craziness going on in politics today for a possible blog post when the phone rang. CallerID said it was a number from “Wisconsin.” Since I had some important things I wanted to get to I was going to try to get rid of…