0 What We're Reading Today (1-22-13): Inauguration 2013 and the Return of the Liberal Messiah

Obama's Second Inaugural Will Stand the Test of Time - The New Republic Jonathan Cohn "We the People": the Sleight of Hand at the Heart of Obama's Second Inaugural - The New Republic John B. Judis Obama Prepares to Govern from the Left - Buzzfeed Zeke Miller & Ben Smith President Obama's Not-Quite Camelot - Politico Jennifer Epstein & Glen Thrush Obama Testifies to the Power of Government - Politico Jonathan Allen Obama's Startling Second Inaugural - The Atlantic James Fallows The 2nd Inauguration of Barack Obama in Photos - The Atlantic The Audacity of Fluff: A Critical Reading of Obama's Inaugural Address - The Atlantic Conor...

0 What We're Reading Today (1-9-13): Congress, TFA, Girls, Inaugural Poet

Sorry for the sporadic nature of these posts.  It's still winter break, y'all. Congress somewhere below cockroaches, traffic jams, and Nickelback in Americans' esteem - Public Policy Polling Deferring Six Figures on Wall Street for a Teacher's Salary - New York Times Scott Eidler Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders - Jacobin Andrew Hartman ‘Girls’: Inside the Eccentric Fashion of Lena Dunham’s HBO Comedy - The Daily BeastAlyssa Rosenberg Lena Dunham Caved to her Critics on Race and It Made "Girls" a Better Show - The New Republic Laura Bennett President Obama poet Richard Blanco's "queer shame" pain...

0 The Mandatory and Cliche New Year's Review and Statistics

This isn't a wrap-up of a year of writing.  Instead, it's just a little something to be with the mood of resolutions and all that.  So, with that in mind, I want to wish a Happy New Year to everyone who has been reading and supporting the writing here at Snakes on McCain.  We established this blog to be a space for us to rant about politics in the heat of the election season and since then, Snakes on McCain has looked beyond Washington as it commented upon campus issues, pop culture, and became something of a dropbox of ideas and expressions (that may have been the most cliche clause I have ever written).  Nonetheless, we...

0 Everything I have read so far about Django Unchained

I'm still digesting my thoughts about this movie so I lack a concrete opinion although I will offer that the more I reflect, the more my comfort with this film erodes into an open disdain for Django Unchained and the film Tarantino constructed.  While I am still allowing the thoughts to percolate, I am compiling links to all the pieces I have read -- or that I intend to read -- about Django Unchained.  Frankly, another Facebook status from someone who has not critically examined their own complicity in the institution of slavery and the trickle-down of oppression and privilege will send me over the edge because, let's be real now,...