Tag: politics
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Impossible to Forget This Year
While it certainly isn’t the “strangest” thing about the U.S. election of 2024, it bears a particularly on-the-nose kind of ominousness that the final date [Read More…]
Cry For Argentina (Among Other Countries)
As the world continues to turn evermore in an extreme right-leaning direction, it can be no real surprise (especially not to the highly jaded ones) [Read More…]
Janus-Faced Politicker or Mere Pawn in the Capitalist Agenda?: Gorbachev
It’s easy for the West to say that Russia had a “complicated” relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev in that it doesn’t want to flatly admit that [Read More…]
A Woman Having a Good Time Is Always a “Threat to International Security”
With the headline cycle of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s “partying antics” winding down as people focus on new (yet old) subjects, like whether or [Read More…]
Top Gun Is Homoerotic Republican Porn
It feels like one of many ironies that Top Gun was ultimately the product of an Israel-born Jewish man. For in writing an article for [Read More…]
Why Does No One Care About Aesthetic Joy Anymore?
Perhaps because it’s the thick of Taurus season, one can’t help but tend to be more attuned to the aesthetics encountered. To notice and, try [Read More…]
For All the Comparisons to Hitler, Trump Will Never Kill Himself
It’s the American way to make things about themselves. So it has been that the man who remains the most nefarious in modern history, even [Read More…]
Lightning Strikes Twice: Borat Sequel Packs As Much of a Punch As Original in Showing Americans For What They Are
Many moons ago, during a period called the Bush administration, people believed America couldn’t possibly become more parody-able than when Borat first showed up in [Read More…]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Catalyzing Not Only the End of the “Wife and Daughter” But Also “Mad Woman in the Attic” Defense for Men
“He called me ‘crazy,’ he called me ‘out of my mind.’ And he called me ‘dangerous’,” says New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she proceeds [Read More…]
#FindSomethingNew: Better If Imagined As A Sexual Exploration Campaign Called #TrySomethingNew
As Ivanka Trump continues to shill Goya products for no benefit other than to 1) assure us we’re in an endless episode of Twin Peaks [Read More…]