question of the weekend: What stuff do you really not need, and wouldn’t be sorry to be rid of?
Because our consumerism really has gotten out of hand, and we really don’t need a lot of the stuff we’re supposed to want…
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question of the day: Was Stephen Colbert’s in-character testimony before Congress last week inappropriate?
Did Colbert’s right-wing gasbag routine have a greater impact than it otherwise would have if Colbert had testified as himself?
yes, Google *is* being evil
Google and Verizon want to kill the ‘public Internet’…
question of the weekend: Caffeine: gift of the gods, or scourge?
As I was drinking my morning cuppa just now in order to wake up enough to get myself to a screening of Shrek Forever After, an article on AlterNet greeted me with this headline: Why Caffeine Is the Perfect Addiction for a Worker Bee Society Cue alarming statistics about how much caffeine there is in … more…
question of the day: Is Insane Clown Posse for real with their “Miracles” video?
My brother Ken forced me to watch this over the weekend, because he thought I’d find it hilarious. So I watched. It bored me, then I started to find it pathetic, and then it made me angry. Take a look: This is one of the most aggressively ignorant things I’ve ever seen, and what’s worse … more…
question of the day: Does TV make the world a better place?
Complaining about television is practically a fact of life. So much so that while critics and fans alike can and do single out individual shows for praise, the general consensus seems to be that, in the words of Bart Simpson, TV sucks — and what’s more, with the rise of the Internet, TV is dead. … more…
question of the day: What is the appeal of Dr. Gregory House?
I learned an astonishing thing recently: the most popular TV show on Planet Earth right now is House, watched by 82 million people last year in 66 countries, edg[ing] out “CSI” and “Desperate Housewives” to get the top spot, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide. That’s from an article by Vanessa Richmond at AlterNet, wherein she … more…
question of the day: Why are undead corpses dominating at the box office?
Today’s QOTD comes via David Sirota at AlterNet, who poses the idea not as a question — because he believes the knows the answer — but as a declarative: he knows why undead corpses dominating at the box office. Not surprisingly — since politics is Sirota’s purview — he thinks it has to do with … more…
question of the day: Is Fox’s ‘The Cleveland Show’ nothing more than a 21st-century minstrel show?
I haven’t seen an episode of The Cleveland Show, Fox’s new Sunday-night animated sitcom — I’m not a fan of Seth MacFarlane, and I can’t stand Family Guy — but from what I have seen (trailers, TV ads, and such) and from what I know about MacFarlane, I don’t find it much of stretch to … more…
question of the day: Where is the idea that the ‘Harry Potter’ kids are too old coming from?
Maybe it only seems like the haters are more vocal when a movie is really really popular, but there’s a weird strand of Harry Potter hating going around that I simply don’t understand because it quite factually makes no sense at all, and yet this doesn’t stop anyone from spouting it. It’s perfectly expressed by … more…
