This will probably be the last post I write about #GamerGate for awhile. The truth is it's taken up way too much of my time and way too much space in my brain. It reminds of the time I read an article in the Boston...
Month: October 2014
Shorter Christina Hoff Summers: "It's about ethics in gaming journalism."
This will no doubt be the greatest film in history: In a massive change of pace, Michael Bay is going from toy tentpole to a Benghazi political drama. Bay is.
Black Tuesday was 85 years ago yesterday. I went on the Rick Smith Show to talk about its legacy and how we are tearing down the institutions that ensured working people would not have their lives destroyed by corporate greed enacted in the following decades....
The global deforestation problem is primarily one of a post-colonial economy, with rich nations importing the raw goods of developing world nations for their own luxurious lifestyles, leaving poverty and.
In the wake of Romney's 47% comments in 2012, the much needed recording of private Republican speeches continues, this time catching Lindsey Graham making some choice remarks: According to the.
Since Michelle Martin's excellent essay produced expected victim-blaming reactions, it's worth noting that Anna North is also excellent on the question of why victims of this kind of abuse feel they can't come forward: “Each of the women accusing Ghomeshi cite the case of Carla...
Brother Pierce makes two eminently fair points here. First of all, while there's no excuse for a Democrat losing a statewide election for federal office in Massachusetts, Republican governors have.
On the Japanese version of Ringu and why she's having so much fun up there. Sample: The most interesting visual element in this shot is the perspective implied by the camera placement..
So you've probably seen all of this: Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and “Aspergery.” (These are verbatim descriptions; I keep a running list.) But I had not previously heard Netanyahu described as...
To follow up on my earlier post on prominent ex-CBC radio host and twelfth-rate topical songwriter Jian Ghomeshi, there are now 8 women who have accused him of sexual assault.
Should the Mariners ever get to a World Series, I hope it's not against Madison Bumgarner and Bruce Bochy. (Pedro against Cleveland in 1999 is the analogy that came to.