Monday, March 3, 2008

WTC = Smoking

Seriously? I'm forced to agree with Andrew Sullivan, although this reminds me more of PETA than Giuliani--sick desperation to try to grab attention and then utilizing some existing guilt paradigm to sell your message. Okay, that's fucking Giuliani too, but still. If you're going to draw a parallel to say that smoking is bad, that parallel ought to hold up is all I'm saying.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.