Saturday, May 17, 2008

The most repellent column ever?

I'm hard-pressed to disagree with that categorization (via Steve Benen). This country is growing more multicultural, to be sure, and the thought of an emerging cultural divide between "full-blooded" and, I suppose, not-full-blooded (i.e. nonwhite) Americans is a depressing idea for many of us. I suppose that Karl Rove and his ilk probably like that idea, though.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.