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About Me

Greetings.

Hello! I'm Brandon. I write for a living and for fun, and in my spare time argue drunkenly with friends. We are contentious, and we are almost certainly wrong about everything.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

In a quiet, smoky bar: Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan.In a slightly louder bar: Christopher Hitchens.In a really fabulous bar: Oscar Wilde.Anywhere: Little Richard and John Updike.

My Blog

Hey, Arnold

The Republican party is splitting into three little slivers: the Evangelicals (Sarah Palin), the Interventionists (the justly maligned John McCain as well as the unjustly maligned Paul Wolfowitz), and...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:17:00 GMT

Yet more evidence that Jesus is cool

In the Niger Delta, an area which apparently contains more churches per square mile than any other region on earth, thousands of prepubescent children are accused of witchcraft, attacked by their pare...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:16:00 GMT

Marriage Equality Can Be Funny

Funny pro-marriage equality ad running in California:
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:38:00 GMT

3 a.m. verse

All the little, lovely notesHow I wonder what they meanWhen they namelessly emoteOn your dusty MacBook screen.Whose is the "violent androgyny"?Who lays upon the hoods of cars?Who soothes your surging ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:48:00 GMT

Drudge Fucks With Reality

There was a big to-do on Drudge yesterday, Thursday the 16th. The headline said "GALLUP SHOCKER: 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN WITH LIKELY VOTERS." This was followed by a one-sentence story without any links: "...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:23:00 GMT

Two Unsettling Stories

Folks:My partner, Penn, has spent the last several weeks staying indoors and keeping up with the news. As he furiously posts updates from Iceland, Pakistan, London, Wall Street, and the American campa...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:28:00 GMT

The Poor Bastard

So. In my last blog I said that John McCain's rallies were getting ugly. Horrible invective from the mob; McCain & Harpie smiling and going along with it. Then, tonight, this: This sorry spe...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:14:00 GMT

The Mob

McCain's rallies are turning ugly. Even The Drudge Report, which has been hammering at Obama with almost psychotic intensity in the last two weeks, can't help but comment on it. People screaming; midd...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:55:00 GMT

The Dread Drudge

Folks:This is a letter I received last night from my boyfriend, Penn (he's in Australia at the moment, due to return at the end of the month). I thought it was interesting, so I'm posting it.Brandon, ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:38:00 GMT

Kennedy

.. and then came Kennedy, spouting pure gibberish. I'm not being hyperbolic. It was gibberish; half-formed slogans that his speechwriters barely bothered turning into sentences, never mind paragraphs....
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:39:00 GMT