Culture

Black Slang? Urban America Leaves Us Behind Again

July 17, 2008

So I saw an interesting post on Mother Jones, about The word in question is “Holler”, and it being a word with black origins. Now, having been at college recently, I put too much importance on language, like a good college student. I thought of my own family’s use of the word “holler”. I can [...]

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A Time-Tested Strategy

January 14, 2008

Special thanks to my roommate for pointing this article out to me. I don’t really know where to start. Here’s a quick summary: Kevin McCullough, writing for Townhall.com, heard about a game called Mass Effect, which has some sexual content, and took that tiny bit of information he absorbed on accident and wrote a column [...]

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Why Aren’t You Watching The Wire?

January 6, 2008

I don’t write a lot about popular culture and rarely feel the need to evangelize for television entertainment, but if you’re the kind of person who reads this blog for reasons other than exposing liberal traitors, you’re the kind of person who should be watching “The Wire” on HBO. Opening its fifth season tonight, it’s [...]

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The Absurdity of the MPAA Rating System, Or Why You Should Go See "Once"

October 7, 2007

The headline is really just an excuse to write about one of the most entertaining movies I have seen in a long time on my ostensibly political blog. The short version of this post is simple: if you’re in Helena, go see "Once" this week at the Myrna Loy before it leaves town. You absolutely [...]

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Conservatives and Books: Talk About Dangerous

September 6, 2007

I ran across this old article on Human Events earlier today, and found it to be a pretty telling statement about the modern conservative movement and its intellectual underpinnings. Human Events asked “15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders: to rate the most dangerous books of the last two centuries, and the results are as [...]

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Women: Want to Avoid Abuse? Do What Your Husband Says

February 21, 2007

I enjoy how the the cultural right pretends like liberals are unhinged. This morning I discovered the delightful group Concerned Women for America via Pandagon, who highlighted the CWA's desire for "homeland security" against soliders viewing pornography. Intrigued and terrified, I found this delightful piece , highlighted on TownHall.com, that makes the argument that womyn [...]

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