If you're joining me at any time 2012 or later and just love combing through archives, you may have noticed something strange about every post older than this one. Each of them begin with a reiteration of its title and a different post date, circa 2010.
Rad. What? and Blow. is the hastily-named spiritual successor of a politics blog I wrote during the mid-term election year of 2010, Edit: For Clarity. I started the blog as a way to harness the leftover fight I had in me from the year-long Obamacare wars and to meaningfully avoid studying for finals. Edit was written with a mission: to cut through the bullshit that I saw overtaking mainstream political coverage. I witnessed as the American people got used to a lot of laziness on the part of media outlets--a lot of misrepresentation of facts, a lot of outright, cynical lying, and a general failure to put stories into adequate context for fear of appearing partisan (in some cases) or not partisan enough (in others).
The rub: the more I wrote about politics, the more I read about politics; the more I read about politics, the more I concluded that there was nothing new to say about it. We had some fun debates in the comments sections of a few of the posts--I won't be re-posting those--but the whole project ran out of steam pretty fast.
It is a new election year and just maybe there a few things still worth saying. So, the old blog was revived here, in its new Blogger home. Look for design changes to come soon and have a good time.
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