The Black Lives Matter Interruption and the Relativist Fallacy
While the Black Lives Matter interruption of Bernie Sanders generated a lot of debate for whether it was an effective tactic (incidentally I think it was effective despite some misgivings about its...
View ArticleMeet the New Spies: Argo, Skyfall and Homeland
One classic Hollywood cliche is to invert the victim and aggressor whenever the aggressor happens to be us. After the Vietnam War for instance, there was a rash of films like The Deer Hunter (1978) and...
View ArticleAn Analysis of 'Looper' (2012)
Major spoilers: seriously, watch the film before reading this or it'll ruin an amazing experience.Usually trailers are pretty good predictors of what films will be like, but in the case of Looper...
View ArticleThe Deeper Philosophical Appeal of Ayn Rand
With all the controversy over Paul Ryan's adoration of Ayn Rand, I was rather surprised that philosopher Slavoj Zizek (a self-described communist) wrote a sympathetic analysis of Rand's works.It...
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The Emotional Appeal for Blaming The Teachers
I was disheartened to hear Chris Hayes on C-SPAN say that the educational "reform" movement is "winning the argument." That's not to say they're winning on any factual level, Hayes meant that in terms...
View ArticleReaction to Red Dawn Trailer
It's easy to make fun of 1984 Red Dawn, the ultimate Reaganite fantasy flick where a million Russians and Nicaraguans managed to sneak into the US and occupy hillbilly towns because the US got soft on...
View ArticleLets Just Say It: Republicans are Pro-Rape
There is a seriously disturbing pattern emerging around Republican policies and rape. In an unprecedented way, Republicans have legislated for rape to be easier to commit and with less help given to...
View ArticleWhat 'Cloud' Computing Is And Why It Should Worry You
With this hilarious Onion video about Cloud computing it makes an important point: everyone is talking about "Cloud computing" but it seems like few know what it is.It's important to know what this...
View ArticleReview: The Dark Knight Rises
I think a lot of reviewers jumped the gun when it came to "The Dark Knight Rises." As the final Batman film by Christopher Nolan it was pretty widely (or at least wider then typical for a superhero...
View ArticleReveiw: The Problem with "God Bless America" (2011)
Imagine if a movie was made about a decent man getting by in a decaying society, overrun by blacks, Muslims, gays and whatever other boogeymen are conjured up to scare people; he eventually snaps and...
View ArticleThe Tea Party is an "Anti-Liberal" Movement
One thing I've found after seeing numerous contradictory youtube videos against "liberals" is that Chomsky's hypothesis that the Tea Party (and the right-wing movement generally) is really an...
View ArticleThe Attack On Universities
Perhaps a bit late but there has been a controversy over the study of the supposed "liberal bias" and "political indoctrination" of California's higher education called A Crisis of Competence (pdf.) by...
View ArticlePitying The Villain? How The Morality Play Is Being Reinforced
Edit: Sorry for the re-post but I think some things have to be clarified. Also some spoilers. While satiric gems like Thank You For Smoking and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog put audiences in the eyes...
View ArticleTortured Logic: Debunking A Key Part of The "Torture Debate"
I know it's election season but this is an issue that needs attention. Currently, the issue of detainees at Guantanamo has subsided since now the focus has been on deaths from CIA drones but it's worth...
View ArticleHate On The Children
One of the unusual aspects of the millennial generation has been the vehement hatred towards them, both openly and implicitly.First, take Jonah Goldberg's recent rant about how young people are "so...
View ArticlePush Back Against Recalls Is Growing Among Elite Politicians
With the Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin, along with the earlier recalls of state Senators last year, the fear of a democratic push back is growing amongst elites who want to hold on to their...
View ArticleFull Review: A Left At War With Chomsky
After my previous post, I decided to actually read The Left at War all the way through and honestly, the more the book is brought up and read, the more self-defeating it becomes for people like Mike...
View ArticleAn Anti-Sherlock For Our Generation?
I've recently watched a few episodes of Sherlock, the BBC modern remake of Sherlock Holmes and my opinion is mixed. Not exactly what NPR has called"the best version of Holmes and Dr. Watson I've ever...
View ArticleProjecting the US's ills on China?
One thing I've noticed is a perhaps unconscious intellectual projection of what are ills when China does them but are either ignored or standard operating procedure for the US. Now China is a brutal...
View ArticleThe Left At War With Chomsky?
When I found about a recent book called The Left at War by Michael Bérubé, I was expecting a researched venture to find out why the left has had trouble organizing and getting together over the years....
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