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Buffy: Good Angel, Bad Angel
NICOLE CATÁ (Peekskill, New York) We here at BOTO consider Joss Whedon to be a staple of contemporary nerd culture. Although short-lived, Firefly, a “space western” television series about a group of renegade smugglers who live in a post...
Violent Headlines Draw Attention… Explosions!
BEN THEODOR (Washington, DC) I probably don’t have to remind any of you that President Obama recently left the country to tour several countries in the Middle East, culminating with a major address to the Arab people in Cairo. You would have ...
While My (Plastic) Guitar Gently Weeps
DEVON GRANDY (Dunedin, New Zealand) Everyone loves The Beatles. They’ve been a fixture—no, the fixture—in rock and roll lore for nearly two generations now, and many of us grew up with their music just as our parents did. The Fab Four are e...
Congressman Goes Hunting for Commies
BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) Students of history may well remember the case of Senator Joe McCarthy, who initiated a witch-hunt for Communist Party loyalists within the federal government. His exploitation of Cold War fears is often refere...
Firing CEOs is Just Part of the Job
BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) Some people may have been surprised yesterday by the announcement that Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors, was stepping down. Of course, the fact that the CEO of a failing company resigned might not catch...
GOP Becomes the Party of “That’s What She Said”
BEN THEODOR (Haverford, Pennsylvania) It may have surprised some C-SPAN viewers on Thursday to discover that their regularly scheduled budget negotiations suddenly became entertaining (just in time for May sweeps, too). And for a Republican Par...
Why Watchmen Matters
BEN THEODORE (Haverford, Pennsylvania) In case you haven’t heard, the acclaimed graphic novel, Watchmen, is being turned into a high-budget, R-rated film made by 300 director Zack Synder. It comes on the heels of what was arguably the greate...
Twitter and the Fall of Man
BEN THEODORE (Haverford, Pennsylvania) For some reason, the web application Twitter has taken off recently. Despite its eerie similarity to Facebook status updates, everyone seems to be tweeting lately. In fact, Shaquille O’Neal actually de...
Vote Batman - A Politician That Actually Fights Crime
BEN THEODORE (Haverford, Pennsylvania) Given Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful term as Governor of California, it seemed inevitable that more actors would begin lining up to run for high office. Apparently convinced that a former Batman actor c...
Wherein Nicole Extols the Many Virtues of Watchmen
NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York) Hello, interwebs! It’s quite good to be back. Absent a more eloquent reintroduction, the redheaded member of the newly expanded writing staff is about to kick off her segment with her multifaceted, breathless t...
The Good, the Bad, and the Idiotic
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York) Break Out The Oreos is beginning its oft-promised, nary-delivered comeback! We’ll go into the changes that are happening all around us in a later post, but for now we’ll turn to this past Sunday’s B...
Dispatches From The Fake America
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York) So you may or may not remember Sarah Palin’s extolling of the “real America”–you know, where “folk” are “hardworking,” “very patriotic,” and “pro-Amer...
Links for Your Monday!
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York) So we haven’t been writing, but we’ve sure had a lot on our minds! Visions of an America under Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin headbobbing on SNL. SNL somehow creating something hilarious from something stupid....
