This is nice … Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism. pic.twitter.com/uxIj1QmtkU— RNC (@GOP) December 1, 2013 Think Progress points out that the celebration of the end of racism may be a tad premature: Some research contends that “racism cost the president more than five million votes in 2008 and 2012″ and a 2012 survey from the … Read More
Remember, It’s Not Racism
Richard Cohen Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man … Read More
Homeland Review As We Step Into Season Three
Yeah, I don't know what the writers are thinking. I like Dana as a charactor, but to make this season about teenage runaways? Well, that's a different show. The success of Homeland, Season One, was that you didn't know who to trust in a show about international terrorism. And that was awesome. When it started to become a show about … Read More
First Thoughts On Homeland, Season 3
Showtime's Homeland may have achieved some sort of record for greatest fall from grace for a TV series. The first season may have been the best-crafted season of any television drama (although Breaking Bad's season four gives it a run for its money). You had Sergeant Nicholas Brody, a returning war vet and terrorist, and the only person who thought he was … Read More
Finally, The DOJ Steps In
Justice Department to sue North Carolina over voting law By Holly Yeager, Published: September 29 | Updated: Monday, September 30, 12:01 AM The Justice Department will sue North Carolina on Monday over the state’s new voting law, according to a person briefed on the department’s plans, the latest move by the Obama administration to counter a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that officials have said threatens the voting … Read More
White Mans’ Paradise Ruined By Gubmint Intervention
Sigh. It's so hard to be a bigot these days: BISMARK, N.D. – An order giving white supremacist Craig Cobb five days to come up with a plan for installing running water and a sewer outlet into his home in Leith expired Monday and it’s possible the house could be declared uninhabitable. The order was written by the Custer District … Read More
Emmy Winners
I didn't see the Emmys, and for a change, I actually wanted to. I thought the match-ups were amazing, and it is really interesting to see how TV has changed in just two years. A lot of people are watching the shows by streaming them — some nominated shows — like House of Cards or this season's Arrested Development could only be seen … Read More
Who’s Right?
This is on the cusp of going viral, so weigh in. Backstory: GTA V (that's "Grand Theft Auto V") was released, and a lot of people had pre-ordered it from places like Gamestop. At midnight of the release which was two days ago, people lined up at Gamestop (and other places) to get their reserved copy. So this one guy … Read More
Ok. NOW I Get Newsroom Season Two
Oh, Aaron. You got me. Here I was thinking you were writing a terrible season about some silly journalism scandal while avoiding the relationships of the charactors in HBO's The Newsroom, and it turns out that the silly journalism scandal was a metaphor for how the charactors fail to connect. Well, needless to say, the finale of Season Two of … Read More
Every Viewer Complaint To The FCC About Miley Cyrus (all 161!)
Pretty much what you would expect. The amusing thing to me is that a lot of these people are probably conservative Tea Party types… you know, the ones who hate gubmint because it tries to destroy our freedoms. And yet, here they are asking the FCC to censure. Oh, well. VMA FCC Complaints
Some Ig Noble Prize Winners
MEDICINE PRIZE: Masateru Uchiyama [JAPAN], Xiangyuan Jin [CHINA, JAPAN], Qi Zhang [JAPAN], Toshihito Hirai [JAPAN], Atsushi Amano [JAPAN], Hisashi Bashuda [JAPAN] and Masanori Niimi [JAPAN, UK], for assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice. REFERENCE: "Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ … Read More
Those Who Don’t Laugh At The Past Are Forced To Repeat It
So this happened in 1919: Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site On January 15th, 1919, in what was probably the most bizarre disaster in United States' history, a storage tank burst on Boston's waterfront releasing two million gallons of molasses in a 15 ft-high, 160 ft-wide wave that raced through the city's north end at 35mph destroying everything it touched. … Read More
Here’s What’s Wrong With The Newsroom Season Two
Aaron? You there? Did you stumble on this website because you googled "what's wrong with the newsroom season two"? You did, didn't you? That's why you're here, right? Okay, I'll cut to the chase. I'm fine what you did with the Jim-Maggie-Don thing. That needed doing. And I like Don's growth. He's my favorite charactor now. And I know I'm … Read More
World Remembers WTC and Pentagon On The 12th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks; Fox Commemorates 1st Anniversary of Benghazi
A lot has changed in 12 years.
Sex Education For Kindergarteners
Whaat???? OUTRAGE!!! NEVER!!! KERFUFFLE!!!!! Wait… maybe I should read up on the facts…. CPS [Chicago Public Schools] insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching. “As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or … Read More