Tuesday, August 11 2009
TIE Fighter: A Post 9/11 Parable
As the only Star Wars game that has you serving under the Empire without remorse, TIE Fighter lets you experience being a servant to a massive government just after a terrorist attack.
Monday, March 30 2009
When Can We Be Friends?
When it comes to sports, while we may be swimming in the cool pool of popular culture, if those sports happen to pit South Korea against Japan, then we have strayed into the searing hot tub of politics.
Monday, March 9 2009
Bailing Out the Bailout
To help pay back the debt, we may need President Obama to wear an actual UPS uniform for the “delivery” of his next State of the Union speech.
Wednesday, January 21 2009
Welcome, Miss Addams, to Your History
The personal life of 20th century America's Mother of Modern Social Work provides us with lessons during our 21st century debate on GLBT rights.
Friday, January 16 2009
Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Eloquence of Rioters
This poetry, symbolically violent in its choice of literary form and symbolically subversive in its choice of Creole, reveals the literacy of rioters.
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Three Icons and the Worlds They Left Behind
Miriam Makeba, Odetta and Eartha Kitt both fully represented and completely transcended their moments in time
Monday, December 15 2008
The California Smack-down
The victory of Proposition 8 could be the best thing to happen to the LGBT community in a long time, but only if we pay attention to its lessons.
Friday, December 12 2008
The Politics Inside Black Pop
Will black pop artists still see themselves as outsiders now that a black person is President? Will they use their cultural platform to criticize him if need be, just as they did to help elect him?
Tuesday, December 9 2008
Presidential Angling
Now that Barack Obama is America's 44th president, in the spirit of his predecessors, he might want to take up fishing.
Friday, December 5 2008
Frost/Nixon: An Interview with a Vampire
Frank Langella seethes and pulsates with cunning as the deposed president in 'Frost/Nixon', a far cry from the grinning cowboy executive Josh Brolin presented in 'W'.
Monday, November 24 2008
You Think You Know Obama?
Internet memes meet political postmortems as we uncover more salient facts about America's next president.
Wednesday, November 19 2008
One Last Legacy for Bush
With George W. Bush eager for a way to salvage his legacy, perhaps we can throw him a bone in the name of Homeland Security.
Tuesday, November 11 2008
You’re Gonna Get a Lot More Girl Talk
Even though the presidential and vice-presidential candidates didn't win the posts they were gunning for, Americans have a lot of women winners, this election.
Tuesday, August 12 2008
Dragging the Old Nag to the Racetrack, Again
Once again, gay rights have been thrust into the center of a political campaign. Will it be a winning strategy again?
