After re-watching the infamous silent episode from the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Hush," I am compelled to conclude that Joss Whedon loves him some tracking shots. Unless the camera is tightly framed on someone's face, it's either panning or tilting or both. If...
What's happening in Libya is extremely frightening. But it is a legal and political mistake to call it "genocide," as a number of Libyan diplomats have done when tendering their.
Photo: The improbably named Cherokee Parks. Blackest names: DeShawn and Imani Washington Whitest names: Jake and Molly Yoder. What a long strange trip it's been.
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home fits neatly into the last third of my "Confessional Narratives" course for all the obvious reasons: it's intensely autobiographical; it's told from an emotional and temporal remove from the events narrated; those events are of indisputable significance to the life of the...
Via Julian Sanchez, Julian Davis Mortenson does excellent decimation work on John Yoo's attempt to project his Schmittian views of executive power onto the framers and the Constitution. For the.
Translated from Teabagger, it means "selling state assets for pennies on the dollar to your wealthy cronies." ...see also. ...and also. ...yet more.
In a less-noticed festivity of Treason in Defense of Slavery Confederate Weekend, an outdoor celebration was held to remember Sherman's famous march through Western Canada. Personal to organizers: next time more Metric, less Five For Fighting.
Fortunately, rail funding is one area where teabagger resentment actually makes me happy. If they don't want the money for crucial infrastructure improvements because hippie-punching is a higher priority, we'll.
Well, some people will celebrate anything: Wearing gray wool uniforms, hoop skirts, leather jackets and business suits, several hundred men and women marched to the Alabama Statehouse on Saturday afternoon,.
The vast majority of neocon Iraq War supporters never cared about them, of course.
The Thucydides conference is now over, although I still feel like a snake that’s swallowed a water buffalo. Some takeaways; I also have thoughts on Thucydidean maritime matters at Information.
It seems impossible for a conservative to write anything about Wisconsin without noting, for their records, that elections have consequences. The original context of Obama's statement, you'll remember, is a conversation.