Archive for the 'non-culture' Category

But Where Will the Neocons Get Their Torture Porn?

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

They’ll have to go back to watching their Abu Ghraib tapes because the new season of “24″ has been postponed indefinitely — another salutary effect of the Hollywood writers’ strike.  Make it permanent, guys!

Democracy is on the way, hitting like a tidal wave

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Yee-haw! It’s the Right Brothers with their rocking tribute to our patriotic president, George W. Bush. They break the moron-o-meter, but, say what you will, there’s a lot of truth in that line I’ve used as my title: democracy (and the heroic bombs that bring it) does indeed hit like a tidal wave.

Cinema = Oppression

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Clark Stooksbury lets the ludicrous Stanley Kurtz have it. Kurtz is a prime example of how certain conservatives now display all the traits of the victim mentality conservatives once despised. They find oppression in every piece of pop-culture detritus that doesn't affirm their own worldview.
Kurtz is frequently in hysterics over a television show called [...]

The rats and the sinking ship

Monday, March 6th, 2006

From Variety, per Drudge:
At the same time, a few conservative hosts are joining in the chorus of Bush administration criticism on issues such as the Dubai port-management deal, lending some credibility to their claims that they don’t simply parrot Republican National Committee talking points. At the very least, political passions make for a lively debate, [...]