Selected June Posts From Politix

Why Does Alec Baldwin Get a Pass but Not Paula Deen? Bloomberg: Not ENOUGH Minorities are Stopped and Frisked Unattractive Workers Report More Bullying on the Job Mayors Group: Make Soda Unavailable for Food Stamp Users Is Libertarianism the Only Truly New Political Idea in 2,000 Years? ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ More Prone to […]

Has Not Giving a Damn Really Become the New Homophobia?

My op-ed at Politx from earlier this month can be read here.

I Was a Free Range Kid

That’s the title of a piece for Thought Catalog I wrote up. It starts off personal, then explores the “free range kid” vs. “helicopter kid” – as in the kids of helicopter parents – idea: As mostly an 80s kid, not a 90s kid, I was an authentic free range kid. I was a paperboy, […]

Little in the Millennial Middle

That’s the title of a piece for Thought Catalog I’m only now posting here, nearly 3 months after it went up. It’s about the shrinking economic outlook for Millenials who aspire to be middle class. Opening salvo: According to a new survey by the vaunted Pew Research Center, Americans have ratcheted downward their expectation of the good […]

Politix Gets Love From American Journalism Review

You can read it here. I get name-dropped, which is nice. I tried to get Critical Review name-dropped by extension, but the author and/or editor of the piece didn’t go for it. The headline represents the aspirations of Politix more so than it does reality, because our readers, or at least full-time commenters, appear to be overwhelmingly conservative. […]

New Gig At Topix

I’m all over Twitter lately, using it much more now due to a gig with the somewhat notorious Topix. It’s a news discussion site with a very laissez-faire attitude toward commenters, for good or ill. (I say good.) We’ve launched a new site called Politix that’s currently primed for mobile users, but a desktop site is soon to roll […]

Some New Posts at Entitled To An Opinion

“An Ev Psych Standard Gets a Twist“ “Heuristics in Action, Sexual Orientation Edition“

My “Review” of Shame at In Mala Fide

Can be read here. I really have no credentials to back up a movie review. I barely have the credentials to write on politics, but I write nonetheless.

My Article at In Mala Fide on Libs vs. Cons, TV Edition

Can be read here. Snippet: If the left loves sarcasm and irony, the right appears to appreciate sincerity. Where the left has the invincibility of Alec Baldwin’s snide humor, the right has the vulnerability of the elderly woman hoping her great grandmother’s crystal stem goblet is worth a fortune on Antiques Roadshow. Take your pick.

My Article at The New Wolf: “The Gordian Knot of Partisanship”

Can be read here. Choice excerpt: Stereotypes function as intellectual arsenal to be deployed in the face of familiar social events that trigger their utilisation, and allow us to make judgements about situations in which we have neither the time nor the opportunity to consider in their full complexity. It’s in UK English, so you’ll […]