I started casually reading X-Men comics in junior high school and have been dipping in and out ever since. X-men are different, and they’re powerful, and thus people are afraid of them. The overarching theme of the X-Men comics, of course, is that ordinary humans distrust, persecute, and falsely accuse mutants. Ordinary humans call the…
This Week In The War On Women: We Have Our General And Her Name Is Hillary Clinton
Someone’s going to have to clean up all this shattered glass. On the seventh of June, in the year two thousand and frickin’ sixteen, a woman finally — ALL CAPS EXCLAMATION MARKS FINALLY!!! — shattered that stubbornly second-strongest glass ceiling. (We’ll be coming to smash that toughest ceiling of all in November.) And not just any woman, but…
An Analysis of Which Presidential Candidate Would Be Eaten Last After a Plane Crash on a Deserted Island
Let’s be honest: national leadership is a cakewalk when you’ve already got a government and infrastructure in place. As long as you don’t interfere with the integrity of an established system for determining succession or base your entire mission statement on stopping anything from getting done, you can’t screw up too badly. (Personal note to…
Here Is Your SXSW Preview With A Side Of Politics
She ricocheted onto the stage like a furious pinball, looking for all the world like a young Liza Minnelli, and she did not stop until the end of it all: when she had told us exactly how much she liked us and she had no more songs left to sing. We knew what to do—it…