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    Apocalyptic Nostalgia

    Thursday, April 24th, 2008
    Category: Cultural Cynicism

    I guess our country hasn’t had a good panic for awhile, so it’s good to see the impeccable Wall Street Journal stepping up to the plate with "Load Up the Pantry", the ROI column from Brett Arrends.
    These kinds of stories always make me feel nostalgic. It seems like only yesterday that we were all going [...]

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    Harry Potter, Anarchist

    Monday, July 23rd, 2007
    Category: Cultural Cynicism, Harry Potter, Nerdgasm

    As anyone who has grabbed a stick and shouted "Lumos!" knows, the Harry Potter books are infallible guides to casting magical spells and to Dark Magic, and are thus rightly feared by the Religious Right.  But in addition to the magic which kids learn from reading the books (and the more dangerous notions that kids [...]

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    Holiday Snarkiness

    Thursday, December 7th, 2006
    Category: Cultural Cynicism

    My wife pointed me at this site for a song called “The Cat Carol”. The lyrics of the song go, in part:

    When Santa came by near the end of the night, the reindeer started to cry. They found the cat lying there in the snow, and they could see that she had died. [...]

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