Tag: U.S. politics
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…]
The Madonna-Biden Connection
If someone wanted the question answered of how old a man had to be for relentless ageist rhetoric about his abilities to kick in, Joe [Read More…]
Money Lived Happily Ever After… But Irresistible, Not So Much
While likely trying to maintain as generic a title as possible so as not to arouse too much interest or outrage from anyone actually partaking [Read More…]
