Now I am. Damn you!

BionicBarry, I also thought the same thing when I heard they were Checknyans. For news outlets and a viewership that have almost no grasp of international affairs there is going to be some seriously bad reporting.

I hope you are correct. I'm outside your country and me and my friends always stare at each other when this happens and ask the same damn question: is america trying to kill itself?

I do ask at the start of the year if anyone is a parent or responsible for the care of adults. If so they are welcome to check their phones. Because I am grumpy I will often have students inform me before class that they'll need to check their phone because of a perfectly good reason. I'm not a sadist, just someone…

That's me. I'm the grumpy old man who won't let people play with their phones and walks behind people with laptops who are clearly surfing. I've asked people to leave class or called them out in front of everyone. I've been accused (online) of stepping on their right to not pay attention since they paid for the…

"If men are accused of having a small penis, the joke sort of just ends there." <—— what is that? There are words that make a meaning but the meaning makes no sense. Is this some sort of piss poor rhetorical writing technique where we get to ignore one thing so we can overly weight the following argument about the…

I am so going to get yelled at.... One of the few priviledges that I would like to retain when the great bullshit of patriarchy washes away is the enforced masculinity performance of not giving a flying fuck about skin tone, pores, under eye whatever the f—- it's called and every little bullshit thing that has people…

And Hatsune Miku does the soundtrack.

I'm going to make an exception for fun caught in sustainable wild hunts where the rest of the creature is used as well. Which exempts my surrogate people's seal hunt form scorn and tisk tisking.

This would certainly change the industry. Combine it with hunger games and we've now got the future of must-see-tv.

This is going to be discussion table tennis: No one is allowed to judge other people | People naturally judge other people. Someone come up with a third option that gets us out of this mess and I'll star you... I'll star you good.

Mass surveillance with cctv certainly started later but the state aparatus against one's own citizens (police & secret service) were greatly expanded under Thatcher. The list of people who were identified as troublesome was also expanded: homosexuals, ethnic/racial minorities, union members, political 'radicals',…

hahahahah. Thank you. Book 5 has clearly consumed my brain.

I like this comparison. While I admit it's been a long time since I took a look at the Elizabethan period (yes I am that much of a history geek) I think we learn more about how historic narratives are constructed as a tool of the present. Elizabeth is cast as a competent ruler who triumphed over adversity mainly…

How did I forget about apartheid. and latin american fascist governement that killed their own people and the homophobia? In my defence her crimes form such a long list I get lost somethings. Thanks wax-tadpole.

I agree Blair's involvement with the war in Iraq will be a constant loadstone but did you read my list? Blair come in after neoliberalism is normative. Thatcher was in the vanguard (along with Reagan and Mulroney in Canada) and she founght an ideological and actual war to get her way. There is no way that Blair's…

This reply happens over and over and I would actually have to see some data to prove she was more hated because she was a woman. Firstly, you would have to come up with some way to understand how a man would be perceived once he: reduced progressive taxation; broke the backs of the unions; privatized everything;…

I'll also say thanks for this. I do not understand the press this person gets or the people that consume it. We've come a long way since Howl.

And some day that cute little thing will grow up to be one of the most terrifying predators on the planet.

As someone who studies folklore lets get a couple of things out of the way: 1. The infantilization is relatively recent; 2. Different genres exist on different social registers; 3. Everyone uses traditional genres are used in every country to do many many things. That is my rant. Please proceed with the interesting…