Category: Politics
Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show: Part Homage to the “American Dream,” Part Shade at How It’s a Nightmare (and Then, Of Course, the Part Where It’s a Drake Troll)
Depending on one’s perspective (rose-colored or unfiltered) of the performance that Kendrick Lamar delivered at Super Bowl LIX (which many Americans will need translated to [Read More…]
Remembering When There Was a Will to Fight Back Against T***p: The Madonna x Marilyn Minter Conversation in 2017
It’s difficult to ignore the fact that the public’s second time around with a Donald Trump presidency is decidedly less defiant than it was in [Read More…]
David Lynch’s Death and Its Eerie Timing Correlations
As is rightly the case, many people are likely having a flashback to another “hits me hard” celebrity death that happened in early January: David [Read More…]
Jimmy Carter: The Death of a “Peacenik” & Its Inauspicious Timing
While, yes, Jimmy Carter was the “ripe old age” of a hundred when he passed away on December 29, 2024, something about the timing—as “expected” [Read More…]
It Was Easier to (Sort of) Believe in the Defiant Optimism of a Song Like Lana Del Rey’s “When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing” in 2017
2017 marked the first year that Lana Del Rey actually “deigned” to get political in her music. And yes, it took fellow quintessential white female [Read More…]
The Julia Roberts-Narrated Harris-Walz Ad Sends An Antithetical Message About So-Called Female Empowerment
The message that the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign team (or, to be more precise/fair, their “satellite supporters”) wanted to send with their Julia Roberts-narrated ad—titled [Read More…]
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Impossible to Forget This Year
While it certainly isn’t the “strangest” thing about the U.S. election of 2024, it bears a particularly on-the-nose kind of ominousness that the final date [Read More…]
Woman of the Hour and Saoirse Ronan on The Graham Norton Show: Two Key Moments in “The Culture” Right Now That Tell a Larger Story
In a now viral moment on The Graham Norton Show that, to Saoirse Ronan, came as a complete surprise, the actress casually “quips” (while being [Read More…]
Italians (More Like Italian-Americans) Should Be Happy to Unclaim Christopher Columbus
As far as Italian-American “heroes” go, they’re pretty few and far between. Mainly because all of them seek to represent an embarrassing interpretation of what [Read More…]
Janet Jackson Is Presented as Sinner and Saint in the Span of a Week
“Janet Jackson saved my life” is a far cry from some of the other digs lobbed at the singer this past week, after an interview [Read More…]
