So The Impeachment Is On

Brief post, still recovering. Pelosi has decided she temporarily has enough votes and needs to make hay while the sun shines. Or conversely, she knows she doesn’t have the votes and just wants to get this disaster over with. Regardless, she is moving the articles of impeachment forward. Assuming it’s the former, this clown car […]

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The Critic’s Real Job

From Phillip Greenspun’s blog: He brings an intersectional lens grounded in social justice praxis to the classroom and is passionate about racial, gender and LGBTQ justice and issues of representation in film. Brad believes that the Western film canon is essentially a survey of what bell hooks calls “the imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” Any creative […]

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Charlies Angels: The Collapsening

A soft-landing meteor. An atheist Easter. A smart Progressive. A feminist Charlies Angels. Some things are just a contradiction in terms. Charlies Angels started life as a vehicle for Kate Jackson, who had acquired something of a following as the Nurse on The Rookies. Then she cut her hair, became a women’s Libber and started […]

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