Did Kimmel diddy around with Bieber?
Jimmy Kimmel posits himself as the paragon of all things moral and righteous on his light night show. He used nonstop it as a pulpit to bash Trump. He also …
The Nonsense of Cultural Ownership (Guest Post)
The media is flooded with attempts to attribute ownership of a culture to a group of people. From some Native Hawaiian’s objections to the personification of Moana, to something as …
Pretence of Superior Intellectual Morality and Our Paralysis
During a recent five participant discussion which had slipped from the metaphysical to the political, one supposedly educated individual blessed with a Phd whom I’d asked three times to provide facts to shore up his simplistic statist ‘talking point’ blurted out in foundering frustration, “Are you a climate change denier?” I was not so much shocked as I was seriously disappointed. Here was an ostensibly intelligent member of society, who, in a weak moment and showing insecurities, defaulted to the use of personal slight, thinking that retreating to the redoubt of his moral high ground might put me in my place.