Reaction video to the lastest out-of-the-blue death in Westeros. Spoilers, obviously. Basically, if you find yourself at a wedding there, RUN. Who did it? The books explain it, but honestly, I’ve forgotten. In the final analysis, it doesn’t really matter. Nothing good will come of it. Well, some good, maybe, but really a whole lot… Read More Game of Thrones Turns Us All Into Monsters
Because there seems to be a wrinkle: An attendee later handed a reporter a piece of paper that was apparently thrown by the woman. It appeared to be a copy of a Department of Defense document labeled confidential and dated August 1967; it referred to an operation ‘Cynthia’ in Bolivia. “Operation Cynthia” seems to be… Read More So WHY Did Hillary Get a Shoe Thrown At Her?
They’ve pretty much become the Slate of music magazines (NSFW-ish at link): throwing up outlandish nonsense to boost sales. Ace thinks this editorial ignorance, or even a prophylactic error, a case of “If we don’t put John Hancock’s signature on her butt, people will give us crap for getting it wrong, even though it’s not wrong.”… Read More Rolling Stone Trolls Us All With Naked Julia-Louise Dreyfus, U.S. History Fail
Historical Racism, defined either as discrimination formalized in law or as open white supremacist hostility, has ceased to excite progressives in proportion to the degree it has vanished from American public life. In order to maintain their cultural edge, the Left has instead declared war on the more nebulous (and thus, easier to accuse) “White… Read More I Was Supposed to Get a Pass: Stephen Colbert’s White Privelege, and Other Exercises in Doublethink
And by “not entirely” I mean that there was such a person known as that, who lived in that part of Arkansas and came before the not-fictional Judge Parker’s court on a few occasions. At least, according to Brett Cogburn, who posits his great-grandfather as that man.
I feel like I’ve used this one before, but I also feel like I’m wrong. It’ looks nice, anyway. If I can get my Medium profile to embed in the sidebar, I’ll be in business. Meanwhile, in Twitchy-land, truth breaks out all over. Feminism. Say the right words, and all is forgiven. ALL. pic.twitter.com/wte06C0MgD —… Read More It’s Getting to the Point Where I Don’t Even Remember What Themes I’ve Used….
Sitcom finale’s always disappoint. Always. They either go full maudlin and forget to be funny, or they work too hard to provide finality and so screw up the chemistry, or they don’t do anything at all (hi, Seinfeld!). This happens because sitcoms are built on the idea “these people, in this scene, are funny.” Ending… Read More Let the #HIMYM Fans Rage, Crack, Blow Thy Bellyful.
I see my friends getting all excited for the new season of Game of Thrones. It almost makes me wish for HBO. But as I’ve said before, I’ve read the books, and as I’ve said before, Martin has drawn heavily on the actual history of 15th-century England in creating his saga. Sure, most people with… Read More Game of Roses, or How George R.R. Martin Gave New Names to Historical Persons
Originally posted on Asylum Watch:
Frankenstein Government carried the following quote yesterday from Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe understands “liberalism”. A “Liberal Paradise ” would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only Law Enforcement has…
I finally got the last two issues of Three today, and I am absorbing the boulder-to-the-face that is their finale. At the fifth issue, finality. That’s several pleasant layers of verisimilitude mixed with economy of storytelling. I’m saving it for next month’s post. Besides, I thought I might chime in on something that DC’s been doing that’s… Read More March Comic Book Post: Please Don’t Humanize the Comedian
Content Blues 