Hello Kitty Avengers
Have you ever wondered what the Avengers would look like if their costumes were by supercute Sanrio brand Hello Kitty? Well, wonder no more as the internet turns the superheroes into something more...
Category: Themes
What Went Wrong With True Blood?
True Blood finally lurched to an end after seven seasons on 24 August, but how many readers actually cared? Enough, apparently, for Twitter to momentarily flare with irritation and distaste over the...
How Blaming the Victims of Photo Leaks Shows Our Victorian Values
It’s almost touching, really, to remember the era in which we could be scandalized by a single celebrity nude. In the 2000s, a simple photo of Britney Spears getting out of a cab without panties,...
America & Religion: Have We Lost Our Way or Lost Our Minds?
The political question of this generation may be, “How do we manage a balance between religion, government and society?” Some commentators on the right proclaim that the Founders imagined a...
Should TV Actors Really Be Earning So Much?
If video killed the radio star, TV stars sure are making a killing today. Perhaps in keeping with the new gilded age in the US, television stars are making more than ever before, and a roundup of...
Operation Protective Edge Ends… But How Long Before Another Begins?
Israel tends to bombard Gaza a little extra every couple of years, making siege trendy—literally. The exercise in genocide that is “Operation Protective Edge” had more than an edge on Gaza,...
An Older, Wiser Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi Takes Over
With the revelation of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, I was deeply skeptical, and a bit dismayed: Yet again, the series had gone with a white man, refusing to buck a long tradition in which white...
From the Booker Longlist: Richard Powers’ Orfeo
“Someone hums a muted tune, a lullaby from another planet. Then the line goes dead.” Insofar as this year’s Booker longlist has a theme or themes (other than “Life! What does it all MEAN!”...
Review: The Rover
Director David Michôd’s dystopian Western “The Rover” is a Spartan, intimate affair played out over vast distances in the Australian outback. Set ten years after a global economic collapse the...
The Child Immigrant Crisis America Is Failing
The United States faces an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America. Specifically, the children are fleeing El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; a region...