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Inmate brags about how great it is to be in prison
I found this video hilarious, but I know a lot of people will disagree.
If you unclench your jaw for a second, you could ask, “so what?” He’s still in prison. We tell ourselves and each other that we object to the hoarding of food, certainly the weed, and the cell phone, but the part that enrages is simply… Read the rest
Naomi Wolf Joins Fox News
I do not think Naomi Wolf is stupid. And if she was, there’d be no point in using her example. It was because she is smart, and a feminist, that her misreading of the video was so important.
If you showed her a Yelawolf video she’d be able to find hidden misogyny in the color… Read the rest
Katy Perry is silly, Naomi Wolf Is Completely Insane
This video is silly. Katy watches her boyfriend flirt with a woman, so Katy strokes out and joins the Marines. The rest of the video is her doing Marine stuff.
Enter a crazy person named Naomi Wolf:
Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video? It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines…I really want
Why do anorexics wear baggy clothes?
At the Oscars, there was some levity made of Angelina’s clearly purposeful exposure of her leg. “Look, I’m still sexy.”
But the real place to look for understanding is her arms. An example of Lacan’s partial object is the 40 something woman who looks in the mirror and decides she is losing her looks– say, getting fat.… Read the rest
What They Don’t Show You On Hoarders: Vibrators
Interesting insight: on Friday Bill Paxton was on Opie & Anthony talking about his years on Hoarders as a cleanup guy, and he reluctantly said this (paraphrasing from memory):
The network doesn’t really like me talking about this… in every hoarder house I’ve ever been to, underneath the bed or somewhere else, are like… 600 dildos. Or vibrators, I
Teaching Metaphor: The Double Life Of Veronique
How do you teach kids to look at films and books as metaphors and allegories? They try to teach something like this in school, but it usually fails. Maybe the students are still immature, maybe the method is terrible, maybe the books they use are even more terrible. Perhaps taking small snippets of art– a page from a book… Read the rest
Syria’s Assad Is Worse Than You Think
Shame and hate are the dominant feelings in narcissism, and consequently the main forces of social control. No government is necessary for this. Make the behavior shameful, or make the guy hateful, that’s how you keep the other batteries attached to the cords.
Do you know who Bashar al-Assad is? According to the Anglosphere press, he’s a Syrian dictator guilty… Read the rest
5+1 Sentences On The Walking Dead “Beside The Dying Fire” s2e13
When catastrophe strikes (the farm) people disperse like sheep, then coalesce again around a leader, looking for a world that’s about more than just surviving. But when they’re safe they either swear allegiance or turn on him, and apparently this depends entirely on whether you are a male or female. Get that straight, betas, if… Read the rest
Shooting through clothing in firearm suicides
5+1 Sentences On The Walking Dead “Better Angels” s2e12
“Damn you for making me do this” is pretty much the most rationalizing thing you can say to someone as you stab him in the belly, but Shane was a murderer, too, after all. Rick’s should feel some guilt, but why bother? There’s no Law to punish him and no God to care– but not so… Read the rest
Greg Smith of Goldman Sachs Departs
Everyone knows the story of the Goldman Sachs exec who published an op-ed in the NYT explaining why he left.
On the one hand, it’s impossible to know if he did this out of conscience or…. because the subpoenas were coming. And this was a way of branding himself as more ethical than thou.
It is… Read the rest
X Kills Y Over Z
Fill in the X and Y. You’re looking at the Z.
5+1 Sentences On The Walking Dead “Judge, Jury, Executioner” s2e11
Look at the this from the boy’s eyes: he failed to pull the trigger on his captured foe, so now Dale is dead; and Dad failed to pull the trigger on his captured foe, so guess what happens next. As far back as Lost characters have tried to solve (without appealing to religion) the post-postmodern paradox… Read the rest
5+1 Sentences On The Walking Dead “18 Miles Out” s2e10
“She has the right to make her own choice to live or die,” says one dummy about another who wants to suicide, but then how come the poor kid they drag 18 miles out to basically execute doesn’t get to decide if he lives or dies? “No, silly,” she and Rick and Shane and et al… Read the rest
The Seven Blunders That Human Society Commits
From the site listsofnote:
Gandhi gave his grandson a list of the “seven blunders that human society commits, and that cause all the violence.” They read pretty much as you’d expect a list from Gandhi to read:
John Hinckley’s Greatest Regret
A doctor who testified for the government noted in his 80-page report that Hinckley regrets not being able to show or sell the paintings he does, most of them landscapes.
“I would like to be known as something other than the would-be assassin,” Hinckley said.
Another doctor reported that around the time Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was
5+1 Sentences On The Walking Dead: “Triggerfinger” s2e9
If you follow the logic of the show, when God dies we retreat to the safety of old school biblical values: men become hunter/gatherers, women become homemakers/babymakers, and though men “rule” the women are the ones who really decide the alliances and ok the selfishness. Maggie’s need for Glenn makes him almost give up his… Read the rest
