Let’s Execute All The Pundits.

by Eileen | 8:52 am, February 28, 2013

Pundits are paid to deliver simplistic and repetitious talking points to an already sympathetic audience.  Whether or not they’re wildly intelligent, it’s not in the job description to display that.  A pundit is supposed to hold strong opinions, regardless of her own expertise and without consideration of how realistic her predictions are.  Then, when she’s [...]

Crunk, Rape, the Banality of Social Media, and the Refusal to Get Serious About Speech

by Eileen | 11:39 pm, February 20, 2013

I will judge you by what you say and write.  And it will impact what I think of you.  You own you choose to put out into the public sphere and I expect you to realize that before you share your thoughts.  If it comes back to bite you, I think you should deal with [...]

A Long and Meandering Meditation on Free Speech, Reputation, and Whose Problem ‘Revenge Porn’ Really Is

by Eileen | 10:52 pm, February 9, 2013

A few days ago, I commented on the phenomenon of ‘revenge porn’ websites and the attendant problem of what victims can do legally without creating a dangerous precedent. No legal or policy ‘fix’ is ever a perfect solution.  In truth, there are no policy solutions, only trade-offs.  What is to be done about a revenge [...]

When Steven Tyler Wants Your Abject Worship, He Will Scream in Your Face and Demand It. Until Then, Drop Dead

by Eileen | 9:14 pm, February 8, 2013

Any hope of common sense coming to the sparkling beachheads of Maui just got a little more distant.  The Steven Tyler Act of 2013 is still alive, and roughly a dozen dingbat celebrities have testified in in its favor. As I foresaw when I wrote about this ode to vainglorious screen monkeys, the bill is [...]

There’s much to be said for both revenge and pornography. Revenge porn? Not so much.

by Eileen | 4:41 pm, February 6, 2013

In life, there are few absolutes.  ‘Never pose for a nude photo unless you’re alright with the every soul on the planet possessing a copy’ is, however, just such an absolute. Morally, it’s repugnant that anyone would steal or misuse such an image of another person.  Morally, any adult has the right to engage in [...]

Of Bacon-Tots and Media Bias

by Eileen | 10:00 pm, February 4, 2013

Last week, inspired by a chain e-mail (hey, the muse speaks in many voices), I set out to learn just how much crime and real scandal dwells within the 113th Congress.  With, naturally, the caveat that it would have to be something dirty by Congressional standards.  By human standards, they all deserve forced labor. I [...]

Overland Math Teacher Confuses her Job with a Van Halen Video

by Eileen | 9:13 pm, January 29, 2013

Carly McKinney is vulgar, stupid, and utterly lacking in judgment.  Let’s just stipulate that here and now. Anyone who doesn’t even try to stay masked when misbehaving deserves what she gets.  Anonymity was good enough for the Federalists, for chrissake. Better known the world as CarlyCrunkBear, a twitter handle that tells you everything you would [...]

So, What Do You Do If He Loses?

by T.L. James | 8:36 am, October 27, 2012

This is just dumb, no matter your political persuasion: Man Gets Romney ‘R’ Tattooed On His Face For $15,000. Good thing tattoos weren’t such a big fad in 1988 or 1996 – can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to have “Dukakis-Bentsen” or “Dole-Kemp” tatooed on your face nowadays? Of course, the bad part [...]

Steven Crowder Does Lena Dunham

by T.L. James | 5:27 pm, October 26, 2012

No, not like that, I mean he parodies her performance in the Obama campaign’s utterly nauseating “first time” video: The comments at YouTube are comedy gold – several commenters criticize Crowder for being sexist by parodying an official Obama campaign video that equates young women’s voting decisions to losing their virginity to Barack Obama and [...]

Go See Dark Knight Rises

by Ari Armstrong | 4:50 pm, July 21, 2012

Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Dark Knight Rises, is extraordinary, showing that a “comic book” movie is capable of intellectual and adult themes as well as stunning action sequences. These are real people, some of whom happen to wear masks, not caricatures. I highly recommend it; indeed, I intend to see it at least one more [...]

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