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 …
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 …
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 …
I read the most astonishing grouping of words yesterday: “ … another Nickelback scholar …” Not only is there such a thing, there is apparently more than one. What world are we living in? A fascinating article titled A Scientific Explanation for Why Everybody Hates Nickelback referenced a staggering number of other research articles, predominantly Scandinavian, …
Netflix is being petitioned to pull Tom Segura’s latest comedy special because of his bit about his right to use the word “retarded”. He and those defending him are claiming that honoring that petition would infringe on free speech. He maintains, (in this not really that funny bit), that he has the right to use …