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Smart people saying smart things (7.19.19)

July 19, 2019 By Fred Clark

Read the smart things Andrea Pitzer, David Dayen, Carlos Maza, Lili Loofbourow, and Adam Serwer have to say and you’ll be smarter too. Read more

LBCF, No. 241: ‘Sign my yearbook?’

July 19, 2019 By Fred Clark

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If you can’t read a parable without reducing it to a single, linear, propositional “meaning,” then you probably can’t write a parable either. Read more

The persistent appeal of Satanic baby-killerism

July 18, 2019 By Fred Clark

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The fantasy isn’t so much that there are real monsters, but that if there were, then we — and we alone — would be the ones to stand against them. Read more

Yeah, well at $19 a beer I’m not surprised

July 17, 2019 By Fred Clark

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A Border Patrol badge is now as meaningless to everyone else as it is to Border Patrol agent. Shut it down, salt the earth. Read more

On Republican outreach to black voters and the utter lack thereof

July 16, 2019 By Fred Clark

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The point here isn’t that Republicans are a bunch of racists, but that they’re showing us they know their agenda is bad news for black voters. Read more