Both sides of my family are conservative and working class. Throughout the years, many an anti-liberal, anti-intellectual, anti-Democratic-candidate email forward has landed unwelcome in my inbox. I try to keep the peace sometimes, but I resent when others feel complete freedom to make their views known to me while I’m told to just delete the [...]
I love beer and sometimes I take pictures of my drinks. In honor of St. Paddy’s Day, here are some of my favorites.
Too often intellectualism has been treated as the mark of a schizophrenic–of someone whose thought processes are divorced from reality. But also too often have intellectuals refrained from truly translating their theory into practice, supporting the anti-intellectual’s case by default.
I often express the more poetic side of my nature in my free time, but somehow [...]