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Crowdsourced Democracy
My ballot is 28 names long, just on one side. The offices up for election range from U.S. senator all the way down to county coroner (which, why? shouldn’t you be hiring that shit done?). The other...
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Institutioclasty
The economic factors in newspapers’ decline are well-documented — the collapse of ad revenue and all the industry’s throughly wrongheaded responses to same. But the news business is also wrapped up in...
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Eschatography
The most detailed and numerous documents testifying to the apocalyptic atmosphere at the end of the tenth century come from Anglo-Saxon homilies. Written by bishops and clerics preparing their flocks...
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Identifiers
Okay, look … this is me. So is this. That’s me, over there. And also here. “Sproing” was my first-ever username, dating back to at least 1994 and the rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc Usenet group where I made my...
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Cases Of Conscience: THE TRANSPORTER vs. TAKEN
The action vehicle Taken (France 2008, US 2009) casts Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired special intelligence operative in search of his abducted teenage daughter. It’s about a man combating an...
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Con-Go
xx xx xx xx xx Back from the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, where I wrote about this and this and also this other show that I’ve never even watched. I am full of notions for making this...
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The Reflecting Pool
I got my Facebook Timeline sometime back in fall 2011. It didn’t offend me from an aesthetic point of view, and it seemed at the time like one of Facebook’s least offensive revamps. I could pretty up...
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Our Summer Of Rape
May 17*:Blogger Anita Sarkeesian launches a Kickstarter to raise funds for a video series exploring “common and recurring stereotypes of female characters in video games.” This precipitates an entire...
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The Men With No Shame
Should Republicans be more embarrassed that Clint Eastwood talked to a chair on closing night of their National Convention. or that they guffawed and genuflected toward a man whose personal...
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What The Troll Said
From Adrian Chen’s excellent reporting on Gawker: “My wife is disabled. I got a home and a mortgage, and if this hits the fan, I believe this will affect negatively on my employment,” he said. “I do my...
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