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« May 2016 | Main | July 2016 » June 29, 2016Media Failure to Examine Brexit Thoughtfully This will make fnord12 happy - a Brexit discussion that doesn't oversimplify the argument to "ignorant xenophobia". But it's Glenn Greenwald, so in the end, no one will be happy. The Los Angeles Times's Vincent Bevins, in an outstanding and concise analysis, wrote that "both Brexit and Trumpism are the very, very wrong answers to legitimate questions that urban elites have refused to ask for 30 years"; in particular, "since the 1980s the elites in rich countries have overplayed their hand, taking all the gains for themselves and just covering their ears when anyone else talks, and now they are watching in horror as voters revolt." The British journalist Tom Ewing, in a comprehensive Brexit explanation, said the same dynamic driving the U.K. vote prevails in Europe and North America as well: "the arrogance of neoliberal elites in constructing a politics designed to sideline and work around democracy while leaving democracy formally intact." In an interview with the New Statesman, the political philosopher Michael Sandel also said that the dynamics driving the pro-Brexit sentiment were now dominant throughout the West generally: "A large constituency of working-class voters feel that not only has the economy left them behind, but so has the culture, that the sources of their dignity, the dignity of labor, have been eroded and mocked by developments with globalization, the rise of finance, the attention that is lavished by parties across the political spectrum on economic and financial elites, the technocratic emphasis of the established political parties." After the market-venerating radicalism of Reagan and Thatcher, he said, "the center left" -- Blair and Clinton and various European parties -- "managed to regain political office but failed to reimagine the mission and purpose of social democracy, which became empty and obsolete." By min | June 29, 2016, 12:56 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (6) | Link Yeah, that's what we mean by "rocks" Well then you suddenly got a lot less interesting, Mr. Joe Cool Dinosaur. And what's with the bait and switch? You're obviously eating some kind of actual rock thing in the first two panels, and then suddenly you're handing out poor man's gummie fruit candies. In 5 awesome fruit flavors, all distinguishable only by the finest of palates, since they're all apparently purple. One thing that is historically accurate is that in the 90s there were so many dinosaurs going around in letter jackets that they were only interesting if they had unusual diets and/or handed out candy. By fnord12 | June 29, 2016, 10:53 AM | Comics | Comments (2) | Link
Who Would You Choose to Save? The study highlights paradoxes facing carmakers, car buyers and regulators as driverless technology accelerates. Most of the 1,928 research participants in the Science report indicated that they believed vehicles should be programmed to crash into something rather than run over pedestrians, even if that meant killing the vehicle's passengers. Ofc. "Who cares about some random kid? Save me!" People are great. By min | June 28, 2016, 9:45 AM | Science | Comments (6) | Link Autochthonous autochthonous [aw-tok-thuh-nuhs] By min | June 28, 2016, 9:21 AM | Good Words| Link
Oh... it's over? We enjoyed Netflix's Voltron despite the fact that they only say "And I'll form... the head!" once the entire season (and mostly as a joke). But i do agree with this from IGN's review (warning: video will autoplay): I've been thinking a lot about how decompression has increasingly affected television the way it's already affected comic books, and we now seem to be a post-season finale society, where the final episode of a season doesn't necessarily have to result in a climax or, in this case, even really feel like an ending at all. Unlike, say, Walking Dead, the Voltron series did have an actual plot each episode, so the fact that the season ends on a cliffhanger doesn't feel like as much of a cheat as shows like, again, Walking Dead, where things only seem to happen in the first and last episodes and things still end on a cliffhanger. By fnord12 | June 21, 2016, 9:58 AM | TeeVee | Comments (1) | Link Cheese 3-PO C-3PO's tell-all memoir about the prequels is out: By fnord12 | June 21, 2016, 9:45 AM | Star Wars| Link Feminist Frequency - Lingerie is Not Armor Just yes to all of this. And not just in video games. Fnord12 and i just watched the Batman: Assault on Arkham animated movie and the outfits for Harley Quinn and Killer Frost were ridiculous when compared to what the male team members were wearing. An acquaintance tried to make the argument that they needed to be half undressed for ease of movement. Right. Because Deadshot and the Black Spider didn't also rely on agility. And that's in addition to the plan that for some reason required Killer Frost to be nude from the waist up and the various shots of both women from behind as they employed extra hip movement to their walk. There's a FemFreq video on that, too, btw. By min | June 21, 2016, 8:52 AM | Comics & TeeVee & Video Games | Comments (3) | Link Action Figures Nobody Wanted They made a special edition Walking Dead 2-pack of Negan and Glenn which includes a "Smashed Glenn head". Why? WHY??? By min | June 21, 2016, 8:47 AM | Comics| Link
Thank you Bernie By fnord12 | June 8, 2016, 11:10 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Hoorayyyyyyy!!! By fnord12 | June 3, 2016, 12:28 PM | My stupid life & TeeVee| Link |
