Our culture has a fetish for putting old wine in new bottles. We reboot old TV and movie franchises, comic books, games, everything. We crave both novelty and familiarity, and like to get both at the same time if we can. Yiannopoulos is that in spades. He’s the racist, homophobic, sexist uncle you dread talking to at Thanksgiving, but he wears eyeliner and pearls.
Trump voters are sad that people are mad at their support for the Orange Menace. From the New York Times: “We’re backed into a corner,” said
Hey, you. White dude with the red cap. You with the gun rack in your pickup’s rear window. You who live in a white rural town where
“There are times when I’m ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.” –Colonel Dax Paths of Glory I
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The President’s statement is worth watching in full, and he’s right. It speaks volumes that a major political party in the most powerful country on
This was my Dad, seven decades ago: He shattered his leg jumping out of a plane just like that one during the Second World War.
The strange, orange man giving a prime time speech tonight has been described in many ways. To his fans, he’s a brilliant businessman, a
In at least one of Star Trek‘s universes–the one controlled by J.J. Abrams, helmsman Sulu has been (or will be) revealed as gay, with a husband
Yesterday, I checked on when I’d started working on my new book. Turns out that its inception date, under the title The Uninvited Guest (the first and