Tag: charleston
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There Can Be Only One–My First Meme
Choose your flag. Choose your cliche. Choose your side. There can be only one. Either you’re in, or you’re out.You’re either for us, or against us. Don’t like it? Get out.
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Georgia Adds Swastika, Middle Finger To State Flag
Here’s a topical chestnut from the archives of The Onion. South Carolina, Georgia… at this point, I’m read to skewer the whole lot from Virginia to Texas. “Georgia Adds Swastika, Middle Finger To State Flag” http://www.theonion.com/graphic/georgia-adds-swastika-middle-finger-to-state-flag-8998
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I Hate This Fucking Thing
Symbols. I should respond to them with a clearer head. I’m a smart guy, I know some things, like the way symbols work to galvanize allies and adversaries in their causes. Especially flags. Especially in this country. A few days ago I posted about the inanity of both flag-burning and opposing flag burning, and I…
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Remember The Poison Chemicals Dumped in West Virginia?
Remember the company that poisoned the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t–at the time, the media was a lot more focused on Justin Beiber’s throwing eggs at his neighbors’ house than at a clusterfuck some have called the worst man-made natural disaster in the past hundred…