A few weeks back, a friend of mine posted a link to a link to a youtube video that was a clip from one of my favorite TV shows in recent time. In fact it may be my favorite moment of that series. It is a clip from the first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s newsroom, wherein…
Month: June 2015
Comics, Drawing
Sketch Card: Iron Fist
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Race & Class, TV
Dem Duke Boys, Semiotics and Good Ol’ Southern Pride…
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tSo for the last couple of days, Facebook has been full of people talking about the Confederate Flag. First the push to get it taken down from the South Carolina capitol. Then several retailers (Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Sears and a growing list of others) said they weren’t selling it any more. Then there was a…
Telemarketer Theater
Scam School
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I get email spam, just like everybody. The saddest thing about email spam is that unlike the phishing phone calls I get, there’s no good way to really run a telemarketer theater prank, so I can’t even generate good website content. They’re basically useless. I got one in my Duquesne email account today that caught…
Race & Class
Still Juneteenth After All These Years…
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There’s a brief history of the American Civil War that most people know. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, an executive order marking all slaves in the United States as freemen. It went into effect on January 1, 1863. As the Confederate States didn’t recognize themselves as part of the Union, they basically…
Comics, Drawing
Sketch Card: Destruction
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Photography, Photoshoot
Brooke: Patriot
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Comics, Drawing
Sketch Card: Michelangelo
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Gender & Sex, TV
Caitlyn Jenner didn’t deserve her award — but she does now…
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I find the whole Caitlyn Jenner thing fascinating. I haven’t bothered to say anything about it til now, because there was nothing really to say. “Oh look, Bruce Jenner is becoming a woman. That’s interesting. Good for him. Hope he’ll be happy.” But that wasn’t a blog post. I saw a lot of people bashing him…