February 2012
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Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 10
I am an idiot. Every week I turn on The Walking Dead and inexplicably expect to watch something else. By this point, I ought to know beyond all doubt that TWD’s goal is not to show us the world of a zombie apocalypse, but rather, one that captures in the stupidest terms possible to decline of humanity after such an apocalypse has occurred.
The show steadfastly refuses to generate drama from...
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WatchLewis Black remains one of my favorite comedians, if only because his total-meltdown style of delivery is so appealing to my own sensibilities. Melting down is a key component of life. Pretending otherwise is grating at best.
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Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 9
You know what I’ve learned from watching The Walking Dead? Women ruin everything. If I didn’t know better, the entirety of the show is dedicated solely to communicating this point, never so much as in last night’s catastrophe of an episode. Let’s focus on what we learned:
-Women Go Too Crazy: last week, Lori lost her mind because she had been without Rick for almost five...
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The War Is Over. The Bums Lost.
You know how you end up thinking that writing this article is a good idea? You’re fucking bonkers insane. No normal, reasonable person looks at the ingestion of contraception and sees a Leviathan at work, tearing our society apart. No normal, reasonable person looks at the ingestion of contraception and sees anything other than a woman who doesn’t want to get pregnant.
But not George...
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The Walking Dead, Mid-Season Premiere
Last December, The Walking Dead ended on a high-note with the plain execution of the girl-zombie Sofia. Yes it was emotionally painful. Yes it was perhaps overdramatic. Yes it was a plainly obvious outcome. But at least something finally made sense.
So when The Walking Dead re-emerged from its self-imposed break, it was easy to imagine a show that had finally gotten itself together thematically....
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Howard Stern Crushing Republican Demagogues
Howard Stern crushes Republicans for their abhorrent views on gays. Howard Stern. When you’re getting crushed for your indecency by somebody like Howard Stern, the tide is turning mightily against your positions. How on Earth are Republicans going to run on this stuff this year? Or in 2014? Or in 2016?
The Incessant Whining Of Social Conservatives
(Catholics love birth control, incidentally. It’s just their bishops that don’t.)
Socially conservative Christians would like me to believe that a governmental rule forcing their organizations to pay for birth control is oppressive at best and tyrannical at worst. You can see at least some of their seething contempt for the rule in this article. As is typically the case with socially...
Takes Guts
It takes guts to run a website dedicated to hugely expensive, utterly over-the-top fashion well beyond the means of most Americans and then recoil in horror as if you’re not part of the problem. Because yes, it is insane to pay $500 for something cheap, but it is just as insane to pay a “pretty penny” for clothing that doesn’t even fit you.
If you’re going to...
Spectacularly Bored?
If you find yourself bored beyond your wildest imagination, you could consider reading something I wrote about preferences. It is posted here. I suppose it would be fair to say that the thing I believe in the most strongly is the equality of human preferences. Which makes me a megadork.
Thanks to Erik Kain for publishing it. He is super famous.