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Men of Virtue: Or, Why Is It So Hard To Write A Good Guy? high noon

Men of Virtue: Or, Why Is It So Hard To Write A Good Guy?

Kristin Devine December 5, 2020

Superman, Gary Cooper, Straw Man Fallacy, and Hollywood's 50-some-odd years of embracing the anti-hero to a ridiculous...

The Avengers: The Origin Story of Louisiana’s Mightiest Heroes

Craig Groff-Folsom March 30, 2020

These days, an Avengers product would be top of the line. However, back in the mid-90s, the...

Fake People, Pure Product dickinson

Fake People, Pure Product

Kristin Devine December 8, 2019

Joyfully imagining something might be true in the privacy of one's own mind seems a very different...

Defending Skyler White Breaking Bad

Defending Skyler White

Kristin Devine July 21, 2019

Is Breaking Bad's Skyler White the least sympathetic character in all of fiction?

Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025And, to be perfectly honest, removing Hogg from his seat not because "you can't sabotage Dems in goo…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.
LeeEsq in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Like it should be blindingly obvious to people that there is a big issue in Islam's adopting to mode…
Saul Degraw in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Eh. I think David Hogg should have stayed but that in the end this is kind of gossip for the very on…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The DNC is run by f*cking idiots. This is why no one believes Democrats about anything. If Trump was…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Good news/Bad news. The bad news first: David Hogg's election to the position of Vice-Chair is a ste…
Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe Chronicles of Higher Education has a cri de coeur: Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? It…
Michael Cain in reply to Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025There are lots of generators/motors at conventional hydro power plants and pumped hydro storage syst…
Derek S in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Seems like water turbines do not need much lithium or cobalt. Turbines need steel, zinc, iron, and c…
Susara Blommetjie in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025I am an Afrikaner. I, and most Afrikaners, think this enire refugee thing is redicilous and embarass…