progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
June 30, 2012 3 Comments
For some reason, La Roux’s “Bulleproof” keeps popping up on one of my Pandora stations that I use to keep me going at the gym. It’s only three years old, but boy, there’s a lot of the ’80s in both the video and the sound. The ’80s Nintendo style, with some early ’80s synth. I hope you’re all out dancing your Saturday nights away!
June 30, 2012 13 Comments
I had high expectations going into this episode of Doctor Who, as it came highly recommended by friends on the interwebs as well as by friends in the material world. And yeah, they were all right. Keep out if you’re scared of spoilers, but come on in if you want to read me fawning over a top-rate forty-four minutes or so of Doctor Who.
DOCTOR WHO: Your life could depend on this. Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink, and you’re dead.
June 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Echoing the sentiments of millions of conservatives across the nation, yesterday a disillusioned Stephen Colbert went over to his high school locker in order to take down his Tiger Beat poster of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
June 29, 2012 2 Comments
One of the ways to add to your suffering is to suffer because you’re suffering.
- Gil Fronsdal, “The Buddha’s Teaching on Not Self”
June 29, 2012 Leave a comment
When something in literature is convincing, I often, unhelpfully, assume it’s autobiographical. This doesn’t speak well for my imagination or my faith in the imaginations of others. But reading Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (1982), I never thought Henry, though a playwright, might be a version of Stoppard–never until the play’s final moment, when the action onstage gives way to the Monkees’ hit “I’m a Believer.”
June 28, 2012 8 Comments
Yes, I would prefer single payer public option health care. But at least a health care mandate pushes for individual responsibility and greater health care coverage. Don’t believe me? Listen to Mitt Romney say so, from a press conference on March 6th, 2006.
June 28, 2012 5 Comments
We live inside an economic system which can make it difficult to make moral choices. It would certainly be a better world with better-paid workers and higher quality goods if we all boycotted Walmart, but their dominance means that many poorly-paid workers depend upon Walmart. And that’s if their community still has local stores which can compete in any significant fashion to the corporate behemoths.
June 27, 2012 Leave a comment
My cat Lucy fell asleep on me while we were watching Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits. Because I’m that kind of a man.
June 27, 2012 3 Comments
If a person steals from 95,000, are they allowed to walk free? Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch stole overcharged 95,000 customers and has been allowed to simply pay what for them is a paltry $2.8 million fine and now they can proceed with business as usual. If we’re going to treat corporations as people, then how about a little law and order, please?
June 27, 2012 1 Comment
I recently bemoaned the lack of interesting tabloid fodder from Lindsay Lohan. Sure, I followed her crashing into that truck when she wasn’t supposed to be driving, due to insurance concerns as she tries to resurrect her career by starring as Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie, but the spark seems to have faded so completely that it very much dilutes the pleasure of following her antics. Not that I take pleasure in anyone crashing, whether it’s literal or figurative, but to me Lohan has had an “it” quality that can shine through the screen at times and makes her a figure of interest.
June 26, 2012 2 Comments
My cat Lucy peering at me from behind the blinds.
June 26, 2012 2 Comments
The White House chided two visitors who posed for photographs in the White House while giving the middle finger to a portrait of former President Ronald Reagan.
At the portrait of Reagan were flung
Obscene gestures. The White House feels stung.
It’s just stupid to diss
Ronald Reagan like this
Now that W.’s picture’s been hung.
