America’s Cable Guys’ Strange Power Trip I was getting out of my car in my apartment complex parking lot and I saw a cable van. I don’t mean a van made of cables, though that would be cooler and, this being Athens, with our art-cars, not entirely outside of the realm of possibility. I don’t … Read more
Like the rest of the country over the age of thirty (except for the uber-right wingers), I listen to a lot of NPR. Not on purpose. It’s not like I mean to. It’s just a fall-back radio plan, a default. When there’s no particular music I want to hear, when I can’t find someone on … Read more
I was a Boy Scout. I even stuck with it long enough to become an Eagle Scout, and despite the severe lack of girls around at the time, I’m glad I did. Don’t get me wrong, back when I was a Boy Scout I often wished that there had been a tent of high school … Read more
Elitism and Identity Politics at the Super Bowl Turn A Deaf Ear to Our Country’s Malaise The intentions of ads and half-time entertainment of the Super Bowl were noble for the liberal cause of breaking the stereotypes that have contributed to black people not feeling equal to whites. Almost every ad was a statement about … Read more
Apparently the Annoyed, Angry and Pretend Progressive Crew has a new target in their ongoing quest to turn everyone off from the very idea they’re trying to promote. Not content to attempt to merely confuse us with plural pronouns or to get us all to renounce standard human ideas like gender (which is a lot … Read more
Even When Only Compared to Other Ridiculous American Trends, Modern Fashion Trends Are Really Dumb Fashion has always been kind of a silly idea: Victorian women’s’ corsets literally moving the internal organs of upper-class English ladies, college guys wearing beanie propeller hats in the 50’s, man-dresses representing the very height of masculinity in Samoa and … Read more