Sinners isn't just a vampire movie that happens to be set in the Jim Crow south. Every major plot point hinges on America's failure to live up to the ideals of both the First and Second Founding: * nominally free blacks are shown working in conditions scarcely
It's Friday – the last day of my one-week stretch of unemployment. Did I spend it well? Hm, let's see. I did a lot of weeding (to paraphrase Dumbledore, it's important to weed and keep weeding, for only then could dandelions be kept at bay,
The following post dominated the discourse on Bluesky for an hour or two on Monday and drove me moderately insane.: I blurred out OP's name because it's not my intention to be mean to a person who, for all I know, is a perfectly nice and
In 2012, reality TV star Donald Trump applied for a trademark of the old Ronald Reagan campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." Thirteen years later, it remains the most effective slogan in American politics. The staying power of that phrase is a testament to its ability – like Trump
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Don't make me tap the sign. Read to the end for two good sci-fi short stories and a trailblazing sci-fi movie from 1956.
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The reason you thought Super Bowl ads were good once is that you were a child at the time.
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Let's end this stupid, made-up word's reign of terror. Read to the end for quick takes on the Gamecocks, The Penguin, and Mrs. Davis.
What was, what never was, and what might yet be
For those who require one, an explanation on the aesthetic overhaul. Read to the end for some thoughts on the BlueSky Boom.
I went to the National Archives to unpack one of Gamecock Football's greatest mysteries: why, exactly, did we fire Jim Carlen? Behold Part 1 of a multi-part series.
Twenty-five years before his triumphant return to Columbia, the Gamecocks tried to hire a former USC assistant and rising star, Lou Holtz, away from N.C. State.
Wow, can't believe they're already doing a reboot of the Bob Caslen saga. (Plus a few other things on my mind this week.)
It's easier to make hard decisions you've been avoiding when other people basically make the decisions for you.
Since the Gamecocks are almost certainly not going to beat Georgia in 2023, let's seek refuge in our memories of the year 2000, a time when they did.
Plus, what the infrequency of this phenomenon says about the futility of the "real Carolina" debate.
And yet I still took the bait.
Read to the end for some truly exquisite Clemson trash talk.
Twitter is imploding, but so far its would-be challengers are coming up short.
Last week we said goodbye to Rilo, a real piece of work who lived to the unbelievably old age of 16.
Plus, notes on Lou Holtz and Georgia's sexual assault scandal.