ECU's history as a Year 1 bellwether
For first-year USC coaches, their performance against East Carolina has typically been a good sign of how the year will go.
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'Sinners' refuses to look away
Sinners isn't just a vampire movie that happens to be set in the Jim Crow south. Every major plot point hinges on America's failure to live up to the ideals of both the First and Second Founding: * nominally free blacks are shown working in conditions scarcely
Hell of a week
It's Friday – the last day of my one-week stretch of unemployment. Did I spend it well? Hm, let's see. I did a lot of weeding (to paraphrase Dumbledore, it's important to weed and keep weeding, for only then could dandelions be kept at bay,
Of course there is art about Trump
The following post dominated the discourse on Bluesky for an hour or two on Monday and drove me moderately insane.: I blurred out OP's name because it's not my intention to be mean to a person who, for all I know, is a perfectly nice and
In 1913 America's greatness did not yet exist
In 2012, reality TV star Donald Trump applied for a trademark of the old Ronald Reagan campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." Thirteen years later, it remains the most effective slogan in American politics. The staying power of that phrase is a testament to its ability – like Trump