Tag: Politics
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Going Negative:
The Social Ramifications of Media Criticism Shortly before Birdman won best picture, I was ranting on Facebook about how I find the films of Alejandro Inarritu to be pretentious and self-serious. I also used the word bloviated. This provoked some ire amongst my friendly acquaintances, and some playful verbal fencing online. A couple of wasted…
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Picking Fights with Friends
To describe the specific incident that inspired this headline would only distract from the point of the essay, so lets break it down to its essential parts. An event that I did not take part in that I was very much in support of and only observed remotely had amongst its component parts an element…
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Don’t Feed the Cannibals Your Own Flesh
Headlines should read “Warren takes lead by slapping McConnell. Biden falls in polls after giving Megan McCain a titty twister. Buttigieg and Tom Cotton to duel at dawn. Bernie nursing broken hand after punching Nazis in Nevada. Klobuchar stops beating her own staff, instead smacks several members of the Freedom Caucus with a hairbrush.”