Saw Avatar last week, and apparently I must weigh in. Lot’s o’ spoilers ahead… Is Avatar racist?Sure, but that’s not a very interesting question. Back before I saw 300, I was prepared to be irritated by its racism, ethnocentrism, and violence to history, but after watching for about 20 minutes I realized that all of […]
Month: January 2010
Apparently, if Hugo Chavez says something stupid, Evo Morales has to follow suit: President Evo Morales said Wednesday that Bolivia would seek U.N. condemnation of what he called the U.S. military occ
The demon karate bit is my favorite.
…can be read in its entirety at my place because Blogger is being a child and refusing to upload my screen shots. Here’s everything up to the first image: Does it strike you as odd that someone writing a book on visual rhetoric has produced two long posts about a television show noted for the […]
Friday Daddy Blogging… Miriam and Elisha.
Just logged on and checked out the comments thread on this post. Good gods, people. Most of you seem to think I equated Olbermann’s substantive views with those of Beck or Limbaugh, missing my p
I have an article up at The American Prospect putting Citizens United in context as the latest manifestation of the Court’s increasing sympathy to the interests of big business. Some other links of interest: Lithwick. Liptak. Hasen. Denniston.
I’ve been puzzling over the same questions Rob has — that why both the White House and the Raul Grijalva set among House progressives seem publicly committed to positions that are utterly
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Here. I was reading a review yesterday of a collection of Henry Farlie’s essays, and discovered that The Daily Beast and The Daily Brute were lightly fictionalized versions of The Daily Mail and The Daily Express in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, which sounds like fun.
There are several reasons why Massachusetts elected the Republican on Tuesday, a topic I hope to cover if I have the time. However, one reason certainly isn’t this bullshit explanation offered b
What Ari said. I realize there’s an element of hyperbole to the analogy I’m about to draw, but I just finished one of several lectures on Reconstruction that I give at the beginning of my