progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
April 8, 2012 4 Comments
One of the jokes on last week’s episode of Mad Men was that Don and Harry chase after The Rolling Stones but wind up with The Trade Winds. Who are The Trade Winds? Here are The Trade Winds, appearing like a somewhat awkward Beach Boys imitation.
April 8, 2012 9 Comments
At times I wonder what the limits are when it comes to conservatives and the issues of race. Most of them have by now adopted the language of racial equality, although they tend to use in the opposite manner from which it was intended. That is, they try to co-opt the language of the Civil Rights movement in order to prevent us from redressing the racial inequities which remain in our society. One prominent recent example is of Newt Gingrich calling President Obama racist for identifying with Trayvon Martin’s family.
But are there still occasions when even conservatives feel that they have gone too far, and can they ever acknowledge racism in their institutions?
April 8, 2012 1 Comment
I’ve been promised that season three of the new Doctor Who really starts to heat up in the middle, probably around episode 8, which is titled “Human Nature.” In the meantime, I feel compelled to watch these things in order and the next step of the trek required me to view “Evolution of the Daleks,” the second half of a two-parter. I had found the first half (“Daleks in Manhattan”) to be passable but clunky and that’s an accurate description of this episode as well, although there is some inevitable satisfaction in seeing an ending come together.
Plus, they leap straight into the action. Fear the plunger!
