There has been a lot of controversy hitting YouTube recently. We had the #VoxAdpocalypse that started when a certain employee of Vox called out comedian Steven Crowder for mocking him in his rebuttal videos. This quickly escalated into what appears to be a concerted effort on the part of legacy media to de-legitimize YouTube as…
Tag: Opinion
How Inception is high Gibsonian lore
First, let’s wipe Johnny Mnemonic from our collective hard disk-augmented recollection. ‘Yes, we’re sure we want to delete this.’ Now. With a Neuromancer film finally–supposedly–in the works, Hollywood has a shot at redemption. But have amends already been made? Maybe.Christopher Nolan’s latest, Inception, asks many of the same ‘what if?’ questions that substantiated Gibson’s Sprawl…
Getting Ready For Red Dead Redemption: Jonah Hex
Next Tuesday Red Dead Redemption hits stores. In the game you play as John Marston, a reformed outlaw making his way in the old west. what better way to get in the mood than by spending some time with Jonah Hex? Jonah Hex is a character that originated in the 1970’s from DC comics. Created…
Feature Presentation: Zombieland
This review should be slightly more relevant than the last, as Zombieland was only just released a couple of weeks ago in the U.S. Perhaps future postings will be even more so, provided I resolve to more diligently refrain from frittering precious time away on certain anonymous image boards. Regardless, this article’s relevance is indirectly…
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
My daughter and I went to see the new Harry Potter movie yesterday and it was excellent! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth movie in the Harry Potter series and focuses on the main characters growing into teenagers as well as the rising power of Lord Voldemort. The movie begins with scenes…
The Specter of Defeat
The decision of Republican Senator Arlen Specter to return to the Democratic Party after 28 years as a Republican is the best thing that could have happened for Republicans and the worst for Democrats. What do Democrats get out of this deal that they didn’t already have? What do the Republicans really lose? The answer…
Plime – The unfriendly news aggregator
Now that Digg is dead to me I need to find a new home for social news and bookmarking. I do still use Netscape and StumbleUpon for finding things of interest but I need something that is social aside from Netscape.I enjoy commenting on articles and finding people with similar interests, does such a site…
What I’m Reading – Liar’s Poker
Liar’s Poker is a game similar to Liar’s Dice where you bid on the serial numbers of dollar bills. This game of push your luck was well known on the trading floor of Solomon Brothers. Only the baddest of the bad played this game for big dollars. It was won by a fair use of…
Obama’s Plumber Problem
We’ve all heard about “Joe the Plumber” by now. The guy out in Ohio who asked Obama about the ramifications of purchasing the plumbing business from his boss. Obama’s answer about “sharing the wealth” allows his opponents to further paint him as a Marxist. Coupled with the Obama campaign’s “95% of Americans get a tax…
What If The Top 1% Stayed Home?
According to data on the National Taxpayers Union Foundation website the top 1% of wage earners in the USA pay about 39.89% of the income taxes collected (I’m using 2006 numbers). These folks have an Adjusted Gross Income of $388,806 or more. The bottom 50% of wage earners who do pay income taxes account just…