Patrick Kennedy

A diagram of comments left on a blog post by a woman who identifies as a rape survivor. The post argues for Penny Arcade’s “Dickwolves” shirts to be discontinued. credit @kirbybits I feel like I promised y’all at least one nerd-culture post, and so far all I’ve written here is, you know, actual issues. So […]

Perhaps you read last year about a SWAT team raiding a family’s home at night and shooting two dogs, a pit bull and a corgi, in front of the family’s 7-year-old daughter, and then charging her father with child endangerment for possessing about an ounce of marijuana. Not an unusual story — the SWAT program’s […]

This morning, Mike Konczal at Rortybomb (link h/t Adam) responds to a bit of behavioral economic wtf-ery that’s been around since the creation of the safety net: the conservative notion that aid to the poor feeds a “culture of poverty” and leaves its subjects even worse off. Konczal sums up the disconnect between math and […]

(Image via) My post from yesterday, in which I used San Francisco’s Chinatown as an example of systemic economic issues and the sway they have over perceptions of race, showed up on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog at The Atlantic this morning. After reading the commentary by TNC and the community, I want to clarify a couple […]

My colleague for the week, Jamelle Bouie, gets a shout-out from Ta-Nehisi Coates this morning for his assertion that Asians and Latinos will be thought of as “white” in the U.S. in the next 40-ish years, and that America’s essential black-white race paradigm will simply morph a bit, into black-nonblack. (This is in rebuttal to […]

Earlier today here on the Prospect, Matt Duss made the argument for viewing political Islam rationally, pointing out that, despite what we’re told, Islamism does not equal our enemy: Given the amount of right-wing energy being spent scaring Americans about extremist Muslims under their beds and “creeping Sharia” phantoms in their closets, such a shift […]

Hey, readers. My name’s Channing Kennedy, and I’ll be your guest blogger this week here at the Prospect, on loan from Colorlines.com. Can I say how excited I am to be here? I am very excited. At Colorlines, my beat is what I refer to as “race meets nerd culture.” You know: video games, superhero […]