Entries Tagged as ‘Dissent’

July 14, 2008

Shits, Giggles & Satire.

Satire on the cover of the New Yorker? My word!
Maybe the satire could have been more successfully rendered, more obvious. Maybe it fails. Maybe the satire is appropriate but the mass American mind ‘does not compute’ high-brow humor. Maybe people are overreacting.
Maybe not. Maybe — ultimately — the golden boy of American politics and his [...]

November 13, 2007

Souljaboy: Conquering America

One white child at a time.
Great extension on the “Superman,” by the way.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I think that any person of any race looks foolish doing the Souljaboy dance. Black people — many of us, anyway — seem to be in on the joke. Others?
Perhaps not so [...]