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Celebrity Mortality and Actual Loss
Eight days ago Michael Clarke Duncan, who you probably know better from the Green Mile but who I remember as the Kingpin in Affleck’s Daredevil, passed away having never fully recovered from a heart...
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October 15: What’s Not Being Talked About In The News
For the most part, I try to keep my politics toned down here at CWR, but every once in a while, something comes along that straddles the line between ideology and culture that’d be wrong not to talk...
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Shame Day: Concerned Women for America
“Concerned Women for America.” It sounds almost like a cartoonish satire of the kind of people who storm into PTA meetings demanding to know why their children have been “exposed to filth” after...
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Fame Day: Public Shaming
I was going to write about comics helping people, or about how a Swedish toy catalogue acknowledged that girls can play with Nerf guns too, but I ultimately decided to focus on a wonderful Tumblr...
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Shame Day: Rebranding
In the latest batch of lectures offered through the ISO’s [International Socialist Organization] annual Socialism conference, there is a speech regarding the issue of post-modernist philosophy. While...
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Let’s Talk About Hypocrisy
Before I begin, I believe I ought to clarify something. In this post, I’m going to be addressing the issues of hardship and tragedy and our responses to both of these things as a culture. Naturally...
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Will The Real Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Please Stand Up?
If you’ve read even a couple of my posts, you’ll probably be able to guess that yours truly is more than a little bit political. The problem with having political views pretty divergent from the rest...
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Gun Control and Cartoonists
As most of you should know by now, I am a Canadian. And as a Canadian, I actually know very little about American gun control laws. Yes, I know about the Second Amendment and have been somewhat in the...
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Shame Day II: ISPs and the Six Strike System
Normally, Thursdays here at Culture War Reporters is dedicated to “Fame Day,” in which Evan and I call attention to people, events, or trends we think aren’t getting the attention they deserve. But not...
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Fame Day: All The Little Things
I’ve always had a rough time with fame-days posts. I’m a generally dispassionate guy, and the things that I do like either aren’t around anymore (good rock, for example) or don’t have much to be said...
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Fame Day: Rand Paul
Only got four hours of sleep last night, so bear with me if this isn’t the epitome of proper grammar or decent, coherent writing. It took me almost half a minute to remember the word “coherent.” The...
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Fame Day: The Young Turks Arabs
A few days ago, a client at the nonprofit where I work heard that I was from the Middle East. The conversation went as it usually does, beginning with some surprise, followed by a few questions like...
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Fighting the Good Fights
Earlier today there was a fight outside my apartment. I say “fight” in the loosest sense of the word. From what I could gather, a woman had given the wrong address to a pizza delivery man, and the...
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Fame Day: Basic Human Decency
I like to rail on our society. Our blatant disregard for the poor. Our willful ignorance in the information age. Our hypocritical sense of morality. Capitalism. People who have perfect eyesight but...
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Shame Day: Todd Kincannon
There’s an old supposedly Scottish proverb that goes, “The only reason some people are alive is because is because it is illegal to kill them.” This is perhaps truer of no one than former South...
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No War, No More
The past week has seen a dramatic increase in tension in the Korean Peninsula as hostile rhetoric continues to issue from both sides of the DMZ. In the west, reactions have been mixed, with the media...
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Shame Day: Reactions to Thatcher’s Death
I am not a fan of Margret Thatcher. Most people aren’t. While you do have to recognize Thatcher’s accomplishment in being Britain first female prime minister (that’s one heck of a milestone, no matter...
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Fame Day: Reddit
When Gordon first introduced the concept of Shame Day and Fame Day posts it was to keep them short and sweet, and I’m going to try to stick to that as midnight is fast approaching. Underneath the karma...
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I Don’t Know If Anyone’s Said This About Boston Yet
I’ve made it a habit not to report on a lot of the bigger news events due to the fact that, with so many people writing about them, someone is bound to have already said what I want to, and probably...
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The Very Real Threat of Islamophobia
Today, I’d like to do something I’ve been wanting to for a while. We’re going to go through a list of recent quotes on Arabs and Islam and replace them with the words “Jew,” “Jews,” and “Jewish.” Most...
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