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10 May 2018

A Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Movie Dates

By Kelly O’Grady When’s the last time you’ve been on a date to a movie theatre? It’s almost thirty dollars! Fuck that malarkey! The candy is expensive, the soda is expensive, the beer is expensive; every goddamn thing is expensive. You can barely afford to make Spam sandwiches for dinner,

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08 May 2018

What Dating Older Men Did To Me

I was told that I should feel bad for having a 35 year old boyfriend when I was 19. I was told by people who loved me, that I was being used for sex. When in actuality, the sex I had in that relationship made me feel more human and respected than most of my interactions with most people as a 19 year old woman.

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04 May 2018

Ten Years of Radical Thought and Punk Rock : PM Press

the image of a book vendor selling essay collections on political theory some 30 feet away from a seething mosh pit cuts a sharp juxtaposition. As weird as it may first appear, though, it does make a lot of sense when you think about it. Punk as a movement was and is rooted in radical thought and action

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02 May 2018

The NFL’s Treatment of Cheerleaders Epitomizes America’s Victim-Blaming Culture

It’s policy that NFL cheerleaders must leave the room if an NFL player happens to arrive at a restaurant or a party where the cheerleader is already present.

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01 May 2018

Using Dating Apps When You’re 50+, Is Not That Easy

Well, here I am, 53 years old and single, starting to see some signs of age…and last night I ventured onto the dating app “Bumble”

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30 Apr 2018

Five Great Bay Area Cartoonists

By Kelly O’Grady San Francisco has been fertile ground for cartoonists since the underground comix scene of the 1960’s. That’s why I moved to San Francisco in the first place. I wanted to relive perhaps the grooviest time of Comics history. I wanted to sit in an obscure coffee shop

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27 Apr 2018

Zuck’s Testimony and Facebook’s Recent Actions Don’t Show a Company that’s Serious about User Privacy

the company has been saying sorry for 14 years for undermining user privacy. Apart from some hilariously bad questions by our elected representatives that betrayed their lack of knowledge of how Facebook works, the hearings were revealing in how Zuckerberg thinks Facebook should be regulated

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26 Apr 2018

Punk, Drag, & Christian Death, A Legacy

By Jillian Roberston Drag icon RuPaul once said, “Drag is punk rock. It’s a big FU to the status quo.” Long before RuPaul’s Drag Race became a global phenomenon, a punk rock musician in Los Angeles was taking that sentiment literally. Rozz Williams, creator of 80s punk rock band Christian

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