Paula Deen’s lovechild with that God-awful Duck Dynasty dad is reportedly furious after footage of a racist man berating an elderly Black woman went viral this week. Among the many things he will likely get away with shouting: “I will carry on as far as I can with this ugly black bastard,” and then threatened to …
Are you an American* watching fútbol in Mexico? Wishing you were watching football instead? Perhaps procuring a little bit of Spanish slang will help you experience some of the excitement that defines this sport worldwide. It’s easy! You don’t have to lie to your wife and fly to a match in another country in order …
Apparently Dan Brown is the Elizabeth Gilbert of grocery-store thrillers. Too easy, vapid and pandering. Or worse. Based on the overwhelmingly condescending and high-brow dismissiveness his books might as well be 50 Shades of Simple Mysteries. Twilight for adults who romanticize European art and architecture, historical mystery and political-ish intrigue. Book lovers and literary snobs …
A weary nation is grateful to Matt Damon. After the spoiled scion of Ivy League American elitism showcased his even temperament, bipartisan level-headedness and respect for the Supreme Court by throwing sneering tearful tantrums for the duration of the Senate Judiciary hearing, Matt Damon helped us laugh at what we weren’t totally sure we had …
There’s a scene from that Aaron Sorkin show* that everyone loved. With Bill Pullman? I never saw it but have seen it discussed with an almost nostalgic reverence, like our own favorite childhood memories. This clip is posted with great aplomb, and frequency, on my newsfeed. A middle-aged white man sits center stage at what …
Despite varied invitations, shall we say, there are only three sets of circumstances where I would get into a car with a male stranger at night. I am horribly injured and my death is imminent if I don’t take the risk that you will actually drive me to the hospital You’re Billy Ocean and I’m …
The latest round of navel-gazing on Facebook while feigning humble reluctance is the Top 10 Most Influential Albums – post a different album every day for ten days and wax nostalgic about how this music takes you back to wherever you were at that point in your life – physically and emotionally. Reminisce. Take us …
Hannah Gadsby is an art historian. She is openly gay. She is a rape survivor, a victim of a hate crime assault, and a daughter with a renewed relationship with her mother. Many people are some of these things. But no one is all of these things. And no one is as deft at using …
Some very erudite critiques of Nickelback make my trash-talking look like sophistry. And it basically is. Because Nickelback is the ick-factor incarnate for me. It stems from a simple distaste for anyone acting like something they’re not. It’s a disdain for dishonesty. Music journalist and critic Shaunacy Ferro quotes the Scandinavian scholars who studied the anti-Nickelback …
The BBC posted a video intended, I believe, to further inform and educate viewers about global poverty by illustrating it with a very specific example from the Philippines. “Some of the poorest people in the Philippines capital, Manila are eating meat salvage from rubbish tips.” But for all their objectivity and journalistic integrity, the BBC …