For a brief, uncomfortable moment this summer, Americans everywhere experienced a feeling they had never previously known: admiration for failed Republican presidential candidate and known homophobe Ted Cruz, when he humiliated Donald Trump by refusing to endorse the nominee at the GOP convention. However, months later, Cruz did a complete 180 and endorsed Trump in a lengthy AF […]
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s general election presidential debates kick off Monday night and will no doubt prove extremely entertaining, if not vomit inducing. If you’re already over these two and want to see how their number two men compare to one another, you might want to know: When is the vice presidential debate? Tim Kaine and […]
Out of all the “whoa, what? huh?” things Democratic and Republican nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump said during the debate tonight, both candidates’ comments on race and the police came under additional scrutiny. Given the terrifying state of police brutality right now and for entirely too long before that, anything either candidate said was bound to carry more […]
Understandably, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who will be speaking at the Democratic convention Wednesday, wasn’t exactly the top pick of young progressives hoping to see Elizabeth Warren or some person of color on Hillary Clinton’s ticket. Aside from his unexciting old-white-man-ness, legitimate criticisms of him exist, like the sizable political donations he’s received from banks […]
On Monday, Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential somewhat-hopeful Bernie Sanders returned to the Senate just to vote in favor of what he called “no-brainer” gun control measures. Naturally, the Republican-dominated Senate knocked these gun control votes down, but hearing about Sanders back in Congress was refreshing. After all, Sanders has a long history of doing some […]
After a months-long contentious battle with Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton became the undeniable presumptive Democratic nominee after big victories in Tuesday’s primaries. Sanders was hoping a boost from California would keep him in the race, but Clinton won the state with 56 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times. As loyal Sanders supporters mourn […]
Donald Trump, business mogul, known racist, and last man standing in the Republican presidential race, visited the Bay Area last week, and to put it lightly, things didn’t go so well. The good ol’ angry mob blocked him from entering the San Francisco Hyatt Regency where he had come to give a speech, forcing him to climb a fence and, […]
I already knew, without acknowledging it, exactly, that Kurt Vonnegut and women were an awkward mix at best. Kurt Vonnegut didn’t write women well — he wrote women who weren’t fully people, exactly, but more a physical manifestation of the mystery women seemed to him to be. It’s not to say that he didn’t get along […]
“Two years ago, my son Will, then a college freshman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay. He said he’d known for some time, and that his sexual orientation wasn’t something he chose; it was simply a part of who he is. Jane and I were proud of him for his honesty […]
