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The Revolution Will Be Kuhnian.

Super great fantastic television

On the Daily Show, John Oliver and Jessica Williams give "stop and frisk" the satirical treatment it so richly deserves. Applying the policy to Wall Street is brilliant. I've often said that if we took the War On Drugs to college campuses a lot of white parents would rise up and demand a ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Colbert does a People Who Are Destroying America about the magic that occurs when people get to know an actual gay person. If only we could get small town white Americans to spend some time getting to know black people.



The Police Are A Necessary Evil

The Sophistry Of Despair... And of Charity