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Impeachment Ain't It, Chief

Impeachment Ain’t It, Chief

In his May 30th op-ed in the New York Times, columnist Charles Blow blasts Democrats for thus far refusing to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. He argues that determining whether a sitting President can or should be indicted is the sole responsibility of Congress, and that House Democrats are betraying the American people by refusing to fulfill that responsibility.…

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Mad as Hell: Working-Class Anger, Consensual Violence, and the Rise of the UFC

Mad as Hell: Working-Class Anger, Consensual Violence, and the Rise of the UFC

Intro: In the fourth round of the final fight of UFC 229 in Las Vegas, Khabib Nurmagamedov finally slipped his forearm under the chin of Conor McGregor and caught him in a neck crank, twisting the Irishman’s head to the right, while pressing down hard on his left shoulder. Conor tapped, the referee stopped the fight, and Khabib jumped out of the cage to attack Dillon Danis – McGregor’s training…

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Film Review: mother!

Mother! is the latest thriller from director Darren Aronofsky. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and tells the story of a young couple whose previously quiet life is upended by a cavalcade of strange house guests. “Mother,” played by Lawrence, is a soft-spoken housewife focused on remodeling the childhood home of “Him” –  her creatively-blocked poet and husband, played by…

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The Saudi Question

On May 20th, the United States announced a new arms contract with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The nearly $110 billion deal includes a Lockheed Martin Co. (LMTN) program called a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system with several batteries, costing roughly $1 billion. Negotiations also included a C2BMC software system for battle command and control and communications,…

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Here’s a link to my blog, which I haven’t updated in forever. You can read the most recent post, which is a transcript of a segment from Episode 004 of the podcast, concerning the recent DNC Chair Election