Category: Politics
Mondo Bullshittio #23: People Losing The Same Sense of Outrage They Had in 2017 When Kim Kardashian West Was Deemed America’s New First Lady
Continuing to experience outrage at this point is almost a herculean effort. For how does one keep up anymore with all the myriad facets of [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Y’all Couldn’t Have Just Taken The Teddy Roosevelt Statue Down BEFORE Night at the Museum Could Be Made?
For every great movie set in New York, there are at least five shitty ones to counteract it (consider the likes of Just My Luck, [Read More…]
The Low Bar For “Landmark”
As some LGBTQs (and mostly the straights that like to orbit their world) are celebrating the “landmark” decision made by the Supreme Court on June [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #19: The Proposal of Statues Being “Upgraded” to Celebrity Monuments
While people worldwide (from Bristol to Boston) have collectively gotten off on the symbolic power of toppling statues as a means to feel like they’re [Read More…]
The Long Ago Vindication of Kathy Griffin By Way of Sharon Needles
Accustomed to always being just on the periphery of fame, Kathy Griffin perhaps thought on some level that she was still as much of a [Read More…]
The U.S. Is A White Man Getting Its Privilege Checked By Other Countries Right Now
As the U.S. has always relished, in its own insulated mind, the idea of being holier than thou in terms of appointing itself as le [Read More…]
The Persistent Pertinence of April 29, 1992
Immortalized by white men after N.W.A. already provided the cannon fodder of any protest against police brutality in 1988 with “Fuck Tha Police,” Sublime’s “April [Read More…]
The Fine Line Between White Savior Grandiosity and the “Like A Prayer” Video Doing The Very Thing White People Are Being Called Upon to Do
There has been an accusation of late, one that can’t be quelled amid the present climate of hostility and rage that has been brewing for [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
