Mandatory fun

Drinkups are rape culture.

Thanx to Geek Feminism.

ETA: bart-calendar makes a good point. What we have is an aggression culture, where repeated boundary testing is valorized as manly behavior. Date rape, drinkups, and Richie Incognito trying to get Jonathan Martin to "man up" are all examples of it.

Poverty

We had a War on Poverty. Poverty won, and now we don't talk about it. Charles Pierce wants to.

My enemy's enemy

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Stalin.