Reading Time: 3 minutes As a big fan of HBO Max’s “Our Flag Means Death,” I was very happy to hear that it’s renewing Our Flag Means Death for a second season. If you haven’t watched it, you might be asking: why the big fuss about this show? Well, first: pirates. Second: gay pirates. Then, throw in dashes of […]
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Posted inLaw
Christian predator Josh Duggar sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison
Reading Time: 2 minutes Conservative activist and former Family Research Council staffer Josh Duggar has been sentenced to 151 months (more than 12 years) in prison for downloading and possessing illicit images of child sexual abuse. He was arrested last year, found guilty back in December, and faced up to 40 years behind bars. The judge dropped one of […]
Posted inComedy
Apple discontinues Catholic clergy app KidR
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just days after Apple discontinued the iPod, it announced the discontinuation of KidR, the #1 app for Catholic priests. As of 11:59 PM this Saturday, the app will be wiped out of existence. The woke mob forced Apple to cancel KidR. Won’t anyone think about the children? Archbishop of Boston Sean O’Malley The app’s main […]
Posted inSatire
Shirley Temple—Witch? Probably so, yes
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is the universal love for Shirley Temple because she was a precocious scamp with a song in her heart… or because she had weird powers, granted by Satan or a non-union equivalent?
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
#FolkloreThursday: Taylor Swift’s Folklore
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is a blog post I never thought I’d write, but last week Swift and her fans overwhelmed the #FolkloreThursday hashtag, and gave folklorists everywhere tons of discussion fodder.
Posted inGeneral
TV Review: Good Omens
Reading Time: 4 minutes A joyous and long-overdue adaptation, even if it tries a little too hard to be faithful to the book.
Posted inCulture, General, Sex & Gender
Stop Building Plots on Women’s Bodies
Reading Time: 5 minutes This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Consider yourselves warned (fyi, the blog image is from the trailer, so it is not itself a spoiler for anything).
Posted inCartoons, General
A Bird in the Hand
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky and Sal are on break, but the comics must flow.
Posted inGeneral
The Shape of Prejudice
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m all in favor of reevaluating all our values, because the good ones will survive the process.
Posted inGeneral
The Last Jedi and the Problem of Nihilism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is moral progress an illusion, or is it simply a realistic lesson that we can never take evil’s defeat for granted?