Month: March 2020

Athenae, Elections4 Comments

We May Just Possibly Have to Get Over Ourselves

Allison Hantschel

No, I am not writing about the Chapo thing, because it’s the usual “NYT anthropological expedition into a thing we know not of, for we are above the fray” bullshit but this is only going to get louder:  This time around, the Bernie Bro charge is different. It’s widely known that Sanders supporters are extremely diverse in terms of gender and race and class, and the notion that only those “privileged” can afford to adopt a more radical worldview has been revealed to be absurd, as it always was. The second prong of the archetype has manifested again, though, but in a … Continue reading We May Just Possibly Have to Get Over Ourselves

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Not Everything Sucks

Allison Hantschel

This guy exists:  Stewart never expected this to become his life’s calling. It goes back to the Great Recession, which began in December 2007, when he was working as a veterinarian at an “economically challenged” animal shelter in Modesto, California, and was overwhelmed by the sheer number of stray animals who needed help. He wanted to show his young son the importance of giving back, so one day, he went to a soup kitchen with his son and girlfriend and started asking people with pets if he could examine their animals. “I knew then and there I was going to keep doing … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks