What Is Game Of Thrones For?
Warning: This post contains spoilers through the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and the second season of Game of Thrones. Also, if you choose to follow the links, you are...
Daily Archive: June 4, 2012
Considering Violence, Rape, and how we Interpret Media
When IO released their new Hitman: Absolution trailer last week it made a lot of people angry. Rhetorical guns blazing, they took to their respective forums and articulated their disgust. For those who don’t...
The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : A Non-Scientific Tape-Delayed Live-Blogged Inquiry
Over the past few months I have been talking here and there about the state of today’s journalism, which I often find worrisome. I find broadcast journalism to be especially troubling. Whenever I have...
Hands of gold are always cold, but Bernanke’s hands are warm
Pop Quiz, hotshot! Take 5 seconds and think of the top 5 ideas popularly associated with Libertarians. Go on, I’ll wait… OK, I estimate that over 90% of you put The Gold Standard somewhere...
