Could it be that sports are critical to the illusion of common culture and purpose and destiny in this country? Perhaps they provide a common lexicon, a sort of “pidgin”, that mill workers and hedge fund bosses use to communicate across the divide? Just a thought. Anyway, wishing I knew more about sports.
Stuff I like (all)
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“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp...” -
“Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and they’ll be like ‘Well we should hang out!’ and I’m...”
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“Between patriarchy and imperialism, subject-constitution
and object-formation, the figure of the woman disappears,
not into pristine nothingness,...” -
“For most of us, our circumstances are quite different from what was common a hundred years ago. We live away from the families and clans we were born...”
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“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a...”
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One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them.
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“So, my advice to you, the Church: if you’re looking for some intelligent biblical liberal opinions on the subject, have a little coffee chat with...”
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Can I just reblog this over...
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“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you...”
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