Category: Politics
Madonna’s History of “Being Butch” Reemerged at the 2025 Met Gala for Good Reason
Madonna’s predilection for displaying her androgynous tendencies through her sartorial choices is nothing new. But at this year’s Met Gala, that fondness for what can [Read More…]
The Irony of Jenna Bush Calling Her Summer of ‘01 in New York “Fun”
Among several non sequitur guests to appear on Kristin Davis’ Sex and the City-centric podcast, Are You a Charlotte? (including Blakely Thornton and Christine Taylor), Jenna Bush—or [Read More…]
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived: The Orange One’s Gloating Reaction to Taylor Swift Getting Booed
Obviously, it’s no secret that Donald Trump gets off on power. And the associated notion of things “going his way” because of that power. Unfortunately [Read More…]
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…]
