No Soup for You: Refusing Hypocrisy Over Business
Isn’t it amazing how eager we are to point out hypocrisy in others, yet so blind to see it in ourselves? Excuse me, did I say “amazing?” I meant nipple-twistingly painful. Pardon the typo. First, let’s get caught up with…
The Occasional Price of Free Speech
Controversy makes everyone super uncomfortable. Unless you’re in America, in which it makes us all inch toward orgasm. We love it here! We especially love it when it pits us against our fellow men and women. Okay, I guess I…
Murder Fatigue: Emotional Exhaustion Takes its Toll
While everybody was busy planning their beautiful graduation parties, yet another school shooting went down. The second one in two weeks. I’m sure somebody noticed. I didn’t. It’s barely newsworthy anymore. Just a side article to quickly scan over on…
The Misunderstood Middle
What a time to be alive! Everyone is offended, everyone is a snowflake, and everyone is an extremist. And if you’re nodding your head in agreement right now — just know that I’m talking about you, too. Every dying soul…
Could the Nintendo Switch Go Down as the Greatest Console Ever?
I should probably start off by answering the question posed in the title of the article: It’s pretty unlikely. Okay, thanks for reading, folks! See ‘ya next time! Honestly, though…maybe it could. And not just because of its early sales…
Ten Years of Infinity are Avenged
Hey, let’s all celebrate! The new Avengers film is here! Surely it won’t disappoint us the way Star Wars recently did. Or didn’t, depending on your perspective. While Disney is ruling the world, they have to please us as peasants,…
Mind Over Lives that Matter
There’s a beautiful train-wreck of a film on Netflix called Bright. It combines fantasy, Tolkien-esque themes with modern urban America. And they were not shy about throwing all subtlety out the window with the racial allegories. In an early scene,…
Of Politics and Sports Fandom
Growing up in the great state of Ohio, I was indoctrinated into sports fandom at a young age. Primary in this fandom was an undying love for Ohio State football. I was surrounded by it on all sides, and I…
The Parkland PSA
I have a message to all the pundits who are angrily opposing the Parkland survivors’ growing movement: they are not paying any attention to you. And it’s for good reason. You can call it irony or call it hypocricy. But…