Today’s post comes to you on what is perhaps one of my most favorite days of the year: May Day.
No, not that one-
There we go.
That’s right comrades, pinkos, and fellow travelers! Today’s post marks not only the celebration of revolution and the working class across the globe but further touches off the first annual month-of-May celebration of all things leftist! Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Fame Day, government, money, morality, news, politics, Youth
Tagged 4th of July, ankara, athens, birthday, bombing, Christmas, class war, colombus day, drone, holiday, independence day, jakarta, lagos, loyalty day, May Day, Obama, paris, Protest, rights, socialism, socialist, solidarity, strike, Thanksgiving, wedding
EVAN: Tired of getting sand kicked in your face and being humiliated in front of your significant other? Well now’s the time to put down that Twinkie hambuger you’re eating [it’s just a Twinkie sandwiched in between two other Twinkies, you animal] and tune in to our discussion for today: being healthy.
Now Gordon and yours truly are both men in their early twenties, and we’re here to talk to each other and you about what it means to stay in relatively good shape, and if we’re even doing that to begin with.
GORDON: This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve covered the general topic of health- smoking, drinking, and obesity are all issues we’ve covered in the past. What really makes this one interesting, I think, is that we’re approaching it more from the angle of health, rather than health hazards. Continue reading
Posted in Culture War Correspondence, food, health
Tagged Alcohol, Culture War Correspondence, exercise, food, habit, health, healthy, metabolism, nutrition, overweight, routine, smoking, underweight, unhealthy, weight
In the final hours of September 21, 2011, the State of Georgia executed an innocent man. Troy Davis, born 1968, had been wrongfully convicted and subsequently murdered after spending nearly two decades in prison. In spite of cries of protest from former presidents, the director of the FBI, the pope and countless activists, Davis was killed for a crime he did not commit.
Such is our thirst for blood- and it is blood that we’re after.
Mel Gibson’s a racist lunatic, but this was a pretty dang cool movie…
We might dress it up as “justice” or a “deterrent” or any number of grotesque charades, but make no mistake, it is an emotional drive for vengeance that is overwhelmingly behind this. Christopher Hitchens, complicated man that he was, got it right when he called the death penalty “Human Sacrifice” in his 1997 debate on the subject.
We seem to have, as a society, a twisted sense of justice. We’re happy to serve up a person- any person- for slaughter to convince ourselves that justice as been done. Someone‘s got to pay when a crime is committed, whether or not that person actually did it seems of little consequence to us, as evidenced by the long and still-growing list of innocent men, women, and yes, even children who we’ve sacrificed for our appetites.
For this reason, today we’re going to be addressing the foundations of the arguments in favor of the death penalty. Continue reading
Posted in America, crime, government, history, morality, politics
Tagged America, arendt, capital punishment, christopher hitchens, crime, criminals, death penalty, debate, deter, detterant, eichmann, guilty, hang, hanging, horse thief, innocent, justice, lethal injection, parole, prison, society, solitary confinement, torture, Troy Davis
GORDON: Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening. Our topic for tonight comes to us from the distant country of Sri Lanka, where a British woman has been deported for transgressing local standards of cultural and religious sensitivity… as a result of having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm…
KAT: Wow. Remind me to get my tattoo removed.
GORDON: You sport the Buddha on yourself?
KAT: Nah, it’s all just wishful thinking. I’m far too broke to have any ink.
(On textbooks)
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, bizarreness, Culture War Correspondence
Tagged America, buddha, buddism, Cultural, Cultural sensitivity, Culture, Culture War Correspondence, deportation, hinduism, insensitivity, middle-east, modesty, naomi coleman, Niger, sensitivity, sri lanka, Syria, tattoo
We deal with a lot of complicated issues here at Culture War Reporters, with subjects ranging from war to feminism to internet shows about gigantic hamburgers. Every once in a while, it’s nice to return to cover a simple and straightforward subject.
The sky is blue.
Birds go chirp.
Michelle Malkin is an evil, evil person.
I mean seriously. We’re talking about a woman who has written a book defending- I kid you not- the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
Posted in America, Asia, history, Islam, morality, politics, race, religion, Shame Day
Tagged 14th ammendment, America, American, anchor baby, Arab, bigot, citizen, Dunkin Donuts, Executive Order 9066, in defense of internment: the case for 'racial profiling' in world war ii and the war on terror, internment, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Americans, jihad, keffiyah, manzanar, michelle malkin, Muslim, palestine, palestinian, prejudice, President Roosevelt, Rachael Ray, racial profiling, racism, racist, roosevelt, scarf, terrorist, US, WWII
Readers, yours truly is not a person to whom the positives of life are either readily apparent or understandable, but even someone as typically dour as myself can’t deny that we are living in a golden age of television.
It’s he-re…
Now I’m not exactly sure why that is- why all of a sudden we seem to have had a jump in quality and quantity of shows. An age thing, perhaps? I considered that, but as much as we could argue that we simply prefer the television shows we had when we were in our 20s, I don’t think my generation is alone in the belief that TV is better now than it was a decade ago.
Let’s try to figure out why. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, business, film, internet, media, technology, television
Tagged 30 Rock, a list, actor, american horror story, Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad, CGI, exec, firefly, GIF, golden age, Hannibal, house of cards, internet, network, quality, quantity, Random, Sherlock, spin-off, television, tom hanks, TV, tv show, webisodes
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