Posted: July 28, 2010 at 2:34 pm.
Jul 28
2:34 pm
Jul 27
9:43 pm
Just perfect. Not to get all boys-vs-girls, but when you think about what the dooz in the original fight club were reacting to, then compare to what women in the Jane Austen era (and eras before, and, actually, eras after) and… yeah. So. Whatever, Tyler Durden.
Posted: July 27, 2010 at 9:43 pm.
Jul 23
6:17 pm
Unbeknownst to the dastardly fanatics of the Westboro Baptist Church, the good folks of San Diego’s Comic-Con were prepared for their arrival with their own special brand of superhuman counter protesting chanting “WHAT DO WE WANT” “GAY SEX” “WHEN DO WE WANT IT” “NOW!” while brandishing ironic (and some sincere) signs. Simply stated: The eclectic assembly of nerdom’s finest stood and delivered.
Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church
Posted: July 23, 2010 at 6:17 pm.
Jul 19
7:21 pm
Jul 15
9:38 am
Jul 15
9:36 am
They are portraying this as a religious moral issue and as a threat to ‘the natural order,’ when what we are really doing is looking at a reality that is already there. It would be a terrible distortion of democracy if they denied minorities their rights.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner responding to protests over the legalization of same-sex marriage made by the Catholic Church.
What I wouldn’t give for a U.S. President with the courage to say the same.
Posted: July 15, 2010 at 9:36 am.
Jul 13
8:59 pm
And in the First Season, that Country Didn't Even Exist
…There are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”. Let’s start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn’t look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesn’t get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons. I wouldn’t even mind the lack of originality if they weren’t so heavy-handed about it. Apparently we’re supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be…
Amazing. Read the whole thing at the link.
Posted: July 13, 2010 at 8:59 pm.
Jul 9
8:10 pm
Both parties have always agreed to extend unemployment benefits during recessions. It makes economic sense, and it’s the most humane thing government can do when its citizens are economically stressed. First of all, the money goes immediately into circulation–it gets spent, both alleviating the pain of the unemployed, and acting as an economic stimulus to the broader economy. This Republican Party, though, either can’t understand the benefits, or more likely, is quite willing to inflict untold pain on the people of this country if it sees an electoral benefit. The economy will get worse, Obama will be blamed, and the Republicans will reap the gains in November. Never mind the suffering. The cynicism is staggering, and shameful.
(via Obama Wouldn’t Have Done This for You © EdSteinInk.com)
Posted: July 9, 2010 at 8:10 pm.
Jul 9
8:02 pm
Everything That Is Wrong With Our Media
Sarah Palin releases a web video in which she pays women to dress like bears and pretend to maul socialism or something.
Cable news covers it ad nauseum, and justifies its coverage by saying everyone’s talking about it, even though “everyone” literally only means the people who are talking about how much everyone else is talking about it. The discussion of the discussion is then discussed on Politico, which then uses the completely self-referential dialogue to point out how Sarah Palin is rehabilitating her image and winning the day.
Meanwhile, it is apparently pretty much okay in America to shoot a man laying on the ground in the back because you’re too frightened to check to make sure you’re inappropriately tazing him rather than killing him.
If only Oscar Grant had been savvy enough to release a web ad…
Posted: July 9, 2010 at 8:02 pm.
Jul 7
5:21 pm
Guess Who Hates You
Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable — water chestnuts, maybe — and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all.
No fun at all, and no joke at all in using a sledgehammer against a representation of groups of people you don’t like. This is some dangerous stuff being done in the pursuit of comedy.
Posted: July 7, 2010 at 5:21 pm.
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