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Glenn Beck and the War on Honor

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 29, 2010

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I have failed you, dear readers. I promised to journey into the heart of Glennbeckistan for “Restoring Honor,” or “Whitestock,” or “The Greatest Affront to American Ideals in History,” or whatever you wanna call it. Instead, I ended up watching it on C-SPAN and monitoring real-time reactions on Twitter. The following was repurposed from my various [...]

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The Tea Party Can Haz Dream?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sat, Aug 21, 2010

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If you live in America and currently draw breath, you know the country is in some serious straits. We’re out of work, facing dim prospects for economic growth and our towns and cities are literally falling apart. Then there’s the escalation of the culture wars, now starring an emboldened coalition of bigoted Christians, bigoted free [...]

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The Banality of Evil: Eden Abergi and Lynndie England

Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Thu, Aug 19, 2010

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You may have already seen the photos: a young IDF female soldier posed in front of blindfolded Gazan men. Her name is Eden Abergil, and she insists “There’s nothing wrong with the pictures I uploaded to Facebook…” One of Abergil’s friends wrote, regarding one of the shots, “That looks really sexy for you,” with [...]

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Another View of Inception

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 1, 2010

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Well, I finally saw Inception. I hadn’t planned on writing about it, however, as everyone from fanboy to critic to armchair PhD has already weighed in. Still, Christopher Nolan’s latest certainly squeezed my mind grapes, so I figured I’d throw some ideas together. ++Dream a Little Dream++ Artists of all kinds have long been fascinated with dreams [...]

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The Cruel Shoes

Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Thu, Jul 22, 2010

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Anna knew she had to have some new shoes today, and Carlo had helped her try on every pair in the store. Carlo spoke wearily, “Well, that’s every pair of shoes in the place.” “Oh, you must have one more pair …” “No, not one more pair…Well, we have the cruel shoes, but no one would want…” Anna [...]

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