As we all know by now, last week the U.S. Senate, in spectacular, lily-livered fashion, caved to the NRA, voting down even the weakest, most watered down version of a gun control bill. After the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which so many people claimed “changed everything”, nothing, in fact, has changed at all. Forget an assault weapons ban, forget bans on high capacity magazines; we can’t even ask gun buyers to submit to a simple background check at a gun show. And, since, according to Mother Jones, “around 40% of all legal gun sales involve private sellers and don’t require background checks” that’s a lot of buyers and a lot of guns. Continue reading
Daily Archives: April 22, 2013
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This week, morale is low in Westeros and things get hot in Astapor. Continue reading
Welcome to this week’s post-mortem. Unlike my first assignment with the series premiere, I felt like this episode was filled with a lot of “wows.” We’ll talk about those in a second, but first:
Warning: This post will contain spoilers. If you haven’t watched this week’s episode and don’t want to be spoiled, then don’t come in here.
Recently, adult male fans of Hasbro’s “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”, (MLP:FIM) colloquially referred to as “Bronies”, and their female equivalents, known as “Pegasisters”, have garnered the interest and attention of the media, or at the very least the internet. As I was reading the various articles about the phenomenon, I found myself fascinated at how the residents of 4Chan, generally agreed upon as the worst people on the internet, had become enthralled by a cartoon about ponies aimed at pre-teen girls.
Several months ago, I set out to answer that question. These are my dispatches from Ponyville. Continue reading
Off to the salt mines. Continue reading