“Chief, you’re talking into your wallet.” – Joe the FBI Agent On Tuesday, the Oakland police managed to send an Occupy Oakland protester to the hospital by cracking open his skull with either a rubber bullet or a tear gas canister. No one is really sure. What they are sure of is that Scott Olsen [...]
Archive for October 2011
It’s Not TV, It’s #OWS
Entertainment for Everyone in Episodic Television
Things That Matter to the Red Nomination
“You’ve got to put these cult people in their place or else they never stop. I’m gonna go kick this Mr. Harrison’s ass . . . Mr. Harrison is a white guy, right?” – Randy Marsh “Yeah.” – Stan Marsh “Yeah, I’m gonna kick his ass!” – Randy Marsh It is essentially impossible to completely [...]
Consumer Safety in the Digital Age
“As you know, Bart, your permanent record will one day disqualify you from all but the hottest and noisiest jobs.” – Mrs. Krabappel From the invaluable Bruce Schneier comes the valiant tale of an Austrian law student and his ongoing efforts to humiliate and expose Facebook for the pack of evil bastards that they are. [...]
V-I Day
“The town of Springfield was born on that day, and to mark that sweet moment our people planted this lemon tree, lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson America, fuck yeah! You wouldn’t know it to look at the news, but the United States of America won a war [...]
The (Possible) Wisdom of Ignoring the Hyper-Attentive
“Don’t engage him, from there it’s all just Orcs and Gollums and Balrogs.” – Sterling Archer Writing at Hullaballoo, David Atkins nicely summarized the left wing criticism of Obama’s efforts since his election. The entire post is worth reading, but the final two paragraphs will suffice for now: In the end, it may well be [...]
Forgotten Birthdays
“Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me. Happy birthday, overlooked middle child, happy birthday to me.” – Lisa Simpson With hardly any fanfare, our little war in Afghanistan celebrated its tenth birthday this week. (They grow up so fast.) With even less notice, the tenth anniversary of the anthrax attacks went almost completely unmentioned [...]
Lars and the Pretty Good Movie
“You know, I can’t believe we’re talking about the same movie.” – Not Roger Ebert “Oh, no.” – Not Gene Siskel “I thought ‘McBain’ was a non-stop roller coaster of chills, thrills, spills and kills.” – Not Roger Ebert There’s an article up at Salon titled “The “Drive” backlash: Too violent, too arty or both?”. [...]
Dope on the Table
“With her behind bars, our store is secure.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “I’m taking this thing to Mexico.” – Snake Way back in the fall of 2001, when bloodlust was in style and only a tiny minority of people still cared to remember that Bush the Younger was an incompetent boob, one of the few voices [...]
“You see, boy? The real money’s in bootlegging, not in your childish vandalism.” – Homer Simpson “Oh, so many wasted nights.” – Bart Simpson Note: This will make more sense if you’ve seen Boardwalk Empire than if you haven’t. On Monday, Salon’s television critic Matt Zoller Seitz put up a column criticizing last week’s episode [...]