Daily Archives: December 14, 2011

Let Them Eat Steak

Princess Marie Antionette never said, “Let them eat cake.” That didn’t matter one bit when she was being painted in libelous pamphlets as an out-of-touch, sex-crazed adulterous elitist hussy in the 1780’s, or when she was brought from a filthy … Continue reading

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A Brittle Manhood

A couple years ago, while I was a graduate student at the University of South Florida, I started receiving (and to this day I do not know why) a magazine that appealed to an urban hip-hop scene, filled with pictures … Continue reading

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