Objectify This

Welp, bro-hemes, it’s no news to most of us that Faux News is not all it’s cracked up to be – for instance, a Google image search for ‘faux news’ turns up a lot of interesting variations on this graphic. Yet at the same time, a newer report on Faux’s antics sees its standard of [...]

I was recently driving around my city (and by recently, i mean two weeks ago, since I’m currently stationed in Colombia, South America, in a city that’s anything but my own) and I saw one of those cars plastered with bumper stickers- coexist, hug a tree, my other car is a broomstick, that sort of [...]

I think that Americans are best represented by Obama for several reasons: 1. He does not support a continuation of the foreign policy that created the War Against Afghanistan or the War Against Iraq. 2. He does not, as McCain does, state that the military should be making foreign policy decisions and suggest that it [...]

To the left, we see Anna Kournikova and George H. W. Bush giving each other a gesture of mutual “greeting, departure, or respect,” known as “the pound”. Yet when Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama reproduce the same gesture, Fox News calls it a “terrorist fist jab” (see video after the jump). Fox also [...]

Like Gil Scott-Heron (you may be familiar with his hit “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“), I’m going to spend this post, the first in a long time, asking the admittedly pretentious-sounding question, “Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”. I’m asking because it sure won’t be Whole Foods, or hybrid cars, or organic cigarettes, or [...]

Again, Obama says it better than most. Because I am in finals, I’m going to turn it over to him. The video is after the jump.

Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]