Relevance: How relevant is it anymore?
“Which Classic Disney Movie is Most Like Your Life?” “Which Decade do you Actually Belong in?” “Who Were You in a Past Life?” “Which Spongebob Character Are You?” These are just a sampling of “quizzes” on one website or another, mostly Buzzfeed, and I see them trickle down my Facebook Newsfeed. They all share two …
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HuffPo: Inciting Violence and Fomenting Hate
Today, on a comment thread in a Huffington Post article about Ted Cruz using the phrase “Stand Your Ground” accompanied by a photo of the senator on a hunting trip, the anti-conservative diarrhea was flowing with its usual vigor. Below is a screen-grab of the Facebook post of the article, along with their typically snarky …
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Giving Thanks for Bread, Circus, and everything else
With the exception of Fox News, the headlines of most major media today are dominated by the all-clear given to today’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the balloons are soaring down the streets of New York City. “Bread and circus,” or panem et circenses was a phrased used by the satirist Juvenal around 100 …
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From RATM
Hey Jay! Your bias is showing! Lately, Jay Leno had seemed to sort of be awakening from the typical leftist Obama stupor, poking fun at him to the extent that some suspect these less-than-adulatory references underlay his being fired from the Tonight Show. But last Friday put any suspicions of an awakening Leno to rest. This …
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