December 21, 2024

New Verb, Politicos: ‘Trumping’

July 10, 2015 Alibi Pierce 2

Posturing, straight-talking, pandering, stooping: We use a lot of action words to describe the foibles of politicians on the campaign trail, and today David Plotz, CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of the always-insightful Slate

I Can’t Hear The TV

May 1, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

Today I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts. I had work obligations that required a two hour (round-trip) commute, along with more travel within the city I had to travel to. I burned

The Evangelical Abortion Evolution

March 31, 2014 Alibi Pierce 1

In a really interesting piece last week, Slate’s Jamelle Bouie wrote about the evangelical community’s evolution (some might say regression) on the abortion issue. Like most folks these days, I’ve always just accepted as reality

The 1% Conspiracy

March 6, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

I’m prone to believing in conspiracies. It’s not something I talk about often–much less admit to in every day conversation–but I can’t deny that it’s true. It probably has something to do with my evangelical

True Detective

January 9, 2014 Alibi Pierce 1

Late last night, Slate’s television critic, Willa Paskin, published a review of HBO’s True Detective that confirms exactly what we’ve known all along: The show is going to be AWESOME. HBO seems to have lost