Archive for February 2018
Black Panther, White Bigot
There was an intriguing article over on Splinter recently, Black Panther Is Making Conservatives Feel Profoundly Threatened by Isha Aran. She’s looked at a number of reviews of the film that were written by right-leaning reviewers. What’s she’s found, she says, is a certain class of white people is a bit concerned about Panther. It…
Read MoreHollywood Scandal?
Here’s some quick advice: If you’re going to commit a crime, do it in Hollywood. Firstly, the weather will be nice (nobody likes committing crime in the rain), and secondly because the Hollywood PD is apparently staffed by some of the stupidest people in the universe. This is the conclusion we can draw based around their…
Read MoreTime And Trump
Once again our editor, Michael Jay Tucker, offers you a video experiment. Today, submitted for your approval, a message to the Lords and Ladies of the Dark Money Network who put Donald Trump into power. You thought that he would do your bidding and protect your interests. You, who thought that he would destroy the…
Read MoreReality Bites.
According to conventional wisdom, it’s a wise man who admits he knows nothing. Whilst this may indeed be a mark of wisdom and self-awareness, it’s also the mark of a man who is completely out of his depth and floundering around for any sort of an answer. So it is with Donald Trump, who reportedly…
Read MoreHugo Chavez: Trump Before Trump
By Michael Jay Tucker Executive Summery: Conservatives and libertarians point to Venezuela’s collapsing economy as proof that “government doesn’t work” and that socialism inevitably leads to dictatorship. In fact, the evidence suggests that the country’s troubles stem from the dark triad of incompetence, arrogance, and populist government that in some ways prefigured Trump. There is…
Read MoreWhistling Past the Graveyard
We’re Just Whistling Past the Graveyard if We Don’t Focus on Defeating Republicans at Every Level By Michael E. Berumen In the wake of the most recent school shooting tragedy in Florida, there is the customary hue and cry of media cognoscenti, gun control activists, and many politicians professing outrage. Social media are abuzz with…
Read MoreBeer Blues
Beer is central to British popular culture. Which is a shame, says Luke Haines, because at least one major beer appreciation society has managed to reproduce all the racism and sexism that are the worst aspects of the UK. One of the interesting parallels between England and America is that both countries have a North/South…
Read MoreCRACKED: A Corporate Media Story
Summary: Cracked Magazine, in its second, online-incarnation, was an edgy, funny, and hard hitting publication. But, then, it got bought by a media giant. What happened then is a tale of what happens when MBAs rule the newsroom. In the wake of the recent mass school shooting, Donald Trump accused the FBI of dropping…
Read MoreKIDNAPPER-IN-CHIEF?
A kidnapper takes hostages and then issues his demands – usually a large sum of money. It is not generally his intent to harm the hostages, but to have his demands met, he typically threatens to kill the hostages if his demands are not met; and if they are not met, the hostages are usually…
Read MoreThere’s Poor, And Then There’s Poor
Here’s one I’d never thought about. To wit, there’s poor, but there’s also poor. Let me explain. Over on Nation of Change’s website there is an interesting article entitled, Yes, deniers, millions of Americans are among the poorest people in the world by Paul Buchheit. In the piece, Buchheit looks at the increasingly large number…
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