Category Archives: television

Then They Fight You, Then You Win

politics, rhetoric, television 2014.06.13 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

The Rise Of The Brony And The Death Of The American Man (horse-news.net) The first conservative attack on the adult fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was notable for a couple of reasons. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, it provided the spark that convinced John de Lancie (voice of Discord and, of course, a true geek god for playing Q in Star Trek) to commit to the project that would eventually become the feature documentary Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. The other thing worth…

Doing Bullies’ Work For Them

cyberbullying, freespeech, glbt, politics, rhetoric, teaching, television 2014.03.21 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

AZ gov vetoes ‘religious freedom’ bill, Ohio lawmakers abandon kindred bill (examiner.com) School will allow boy to bring My Little Pony backpack (USA Today) We liberals, or at least the majority of us, often get unfairly maligned as being some kind of “thought police” trying to tell people what they should or shouldn’t think. I think I can speak for the vast majority of liberals, and hopefully people as a whole, when I say that what goes on in your head is no one’s business…

Have a Coke and a STFU

politics, rhetoric, television 2014.02.03 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Coca Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’ Super Bowl commercial angers conservative pundits (New York Daily News) MSNBC Goes To Free Speech Jail For Pointing Out Racist People Are Racist (Wonkette) Racism is not an inherent trait of conservative philosophy. If anything, the conservatives I know would argue that any kind of discrimination — no matter what its basis, and whether by law or by deed — goes against the principles of free markets, because it has the tendency to remove both consumers and producers from the…

Dumbfuck Dynasty

freespeech, glbt, politics, rhetoric, television 2013.12.20 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Sarah Palin, Gov. Bobby Jindal defend Phil Robertson after he’s suspended from ‘Duck Dynasty’ (Washington Post) Megyn Kelly: I Was Just Kidding About Santa Being White You Race-Baiter (Gawker) Lost amidst the more high-profile departure of Alec Baldwin from their prime-time lineup, MSNBC recently had a much more difficult personnel struggle that resulted in another of their hosts leaving. Martin Bashir, who once interviewed Michael Jackson on television years ago and then somehow popped up hosting an afternoon show on the network, was highlighting stupid…

The Health Care Games

politics, rhetoric, television 2013.10.27 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

(Note: Due to being in the middle of both a huge writing project and a huge editing project right now, I probably won’t be able to blog that much for the remainder of the year. I apologize for that, and encourage you all to follow me on my Twitter and Facebook and Google+, which I’m able to update much more often than the .org.) Over the past few years, Mom has taken to watching game shows a lot. I think it’s kind of her way…