Danica Roem is damn smart. Her well-trained mind — not her gender — will serve Virginia and her constituents well. About a decade and a half ago, Dan Roem sat through a […]
Loud, pushy and profane: Danica Roem makes history
Anti-Trump backlash: women lead the charge
Are we seeing the backlash to the backlash, and is it sustainable? The S&R staff has a private list we use to strategize, conversate and sometimes just socialize. Occasionally we find ourselves […]
In sports, the national anthem is irrelevant
By Ryan Signorino Every four years, the world’s best athletes come together for the Olympics. The best of the best stand on the podium, their countries’ flags waving over their heads, with […]
You might be a racist if….
MAGA is racist. So is building DAPL, and ending DACA, and even the full Star-Spangled Banner poem. If you support all those things, you might be racist too.
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 […]
White man executed for killing black man
And it happened in the South, even… Odd this isn’t bigger news, huh? Which is odd. I mean, if ever there were a man bites dog story… Maybe the press doesn’t want to […]
Should the Union have allowed Sherman to destroy the South?
In a Scrogues Converse feature, Jim Booth, Lex and @Doc reconsider the decision to rein Sherman in before he burned the Confederacy to the ground. [Ed. Note: Jim was an English teacher […]
Mid-century modern bigotry
Frankenstein, 1932: villagers with pitchforks and torches search for the monster who killed the little blonde girl. Berlin, 1933: Brown-shirted Nazis march triumphantly through Berlin by torchlight to celebrate the accession of Adolph […]
Is Colin Kaepernick a “distraction”? You’re missing the point. By a mile.
A lot of people believe famous uppity negro CK7 would be a distraction, which tells you things about America you may not want to think about. You can’t swing a dead cat […]
Happy 4th of July: what does “freedom” mean to you?
America is a great idea, but it’s hard to love these days. At some point tonight millions and millions of us will find ourselves sitting in a stadium or a park or […]
