ThinkProgress ran a piece on the world’s media wondering about our guns Dear World: It’s not hard to understand. Tragic, maybe, YMMV, but not hard to understand. We’d just finished telling King […]
Dear World: Here’s the thing about our guns
Frank Balsinger
Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
The Emperor’s new wall
DHS Seeks Designs for ‘See-Through’ Section of Trump’s Wall Okay, okay. I’ve got an idea. It’s not actually there. You just make people think it’s there. Signs every 50 feet or so […]
Trevor Noah ain’t wrong. Antifa is.
I’ve already gotten to the point where I just chalk antifa up to Black Bloc 2.0. Fuck those guys. Richard Spencer, known Nazi, getting punched was, I admit it, hilarious. It was […]
All sides, all sides
Two sides to every story broken down to bare bones: Side 1: stop injustice! Side 2: stop demanding justice! Both sides would really love it if the other side would just sit […]
Here’s your shared square inch: #nazisarebad
#nazisarebad Left/right. Dem/GOP. Libtard/Rethuglican. Team A/Team B. For just this moment this should be one thing it’s easy for all of us to agree on. Will you share this? If not, why? […]
Gwyneth Paltrow inspired me to become a doctor
Now meet the nurse who can’t wear gloves It’s been a while since I’ve done anything especially Frank-goofy. I miss pulling weird stunts, like the Tell Me About It sign at Dupont […]
Today in so-called journalism
I live in a small town in a rural county in a flyover state. It’s not often we get news of a local variety that merits blogging on an international platform. We’re […]
Some reflections on freedom
Freedom means a lot of things to a lot of people. One thing I’m grateful for is that we live in a time and place where we’re as free as we are. […]
The end of the AUMF: fake news, errors, and framing
Moyers & Co, a fine source of journalism from outside the deeply consolidated mainstream, ran a piece today, Mistakes in the News Are Not Fake News. It’s an occasionally scathing article, but […]
How many dead people is too many?
If we were talking about a policy that would kill thousands more Christians each year, it would be persecution Apparently it is now uncivil and alarmist to point at the gorilla in […]
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