Karl Rove is a douche. And yet, despite his long history of being a douche, after leaving politics he's managed to get jobs with Fox (not surprising) and Newsweek (kind of surprising) as a political ...
Read more »There’s a black dog in my building that I sometimes see when I’m standing in the lobby waiting for the elevator. I don’t know his name, or even if he’s a he, but for now let& ...
Read more »This is a bit late, but here is an awesome blog from Foreign Policy applying an international relations reading to The Game/Jay-Z beef. Basically, Jay-Z is the rap version of the U.S. hegemon while ...
Read more »Have you heard of Xe, aka Blackwater? I never heard of them until I saw this clip. Xe is a private military company founded in 1997 as Blackwater USA. Xe, like any other private business, ...
Read more »It seems of late that every so often a piece on English dominance of the globe crops up. This time the triumphalism was the work of Ali Wyne writing in Foreign Policy. While some of the points have ...
Read more »Teaching is often finding that well worn dent in the wall. You know the one. It fits your forehead perfectly. Other times, well, other times it throws up gold like this. One of my students, whom ...
Read more »Maybe its North America's puritan roots, but European politicians seem to do everything with an elevated sense of style. Even the wrong stuff. Consider Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. ...
Read more »The question I’ve recently been asking is, “Why are superpowers rarely democratic?” Although the term “super power nation“ originated soon after World War 2, I'm using the term here for any nation ...
Read more »BART SIMPSON: Hey, immigrants! Beat It! Country's full! BOAT CAPTAIN Okay, folks. You hear the lady. Back into the hold. We'll try Canada. IMMIGRANTS: Oh no, not Canada. When you ask a person ...
Read more »Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the residents of northern California sat glued to their television sets as images of an attractive, twenty-year-old woman committing a brazen robbery of a Bay ...
Read more »"Poignant analysis of one of my favourite movies of all time. Full marks!"
Kai"i doubt there's a causal relationship between porn and rape... but i think a society that tolerates more liberal attitudes towards sex (and porn) would be much less stifling, and likely to create an environment that will create people to act in a ..."
avp."And there is some pretty sick porn out there with overt violence against women. Even the mainstream stuff has a very male-dominants-a female object vibe. But I don't know if that necessarily translates into misogynistic attitudes. I watch violence on TV ..."
Aman"I am definitely not a fan of exclusion either. I think the Internet has sped up the sharing of culture and language (slang) so much that it's only natural that other people would get genuinely interested in facets of black culture. Granted you always run ..."
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"For real, I remember being very affected by this movie. I was around 15 at the time, so I definitely could relate to Agee and Gates... Time for a re-watch I think"
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