Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist. Its fundamental narrative logic is racist: it transposes the cultural politics of Westerns (in which the Native Americans are animists who belong to a more...
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Speaking of the culture of celebrity and media saturation, an ironic aspect of the ridiculous levels of worshipful coverage that Brett Favre has gotten over the years is that it.
Somerby notes the unfortunate parallels: Undying love of conventional wisdom: Many sports pundits have seemed genuinely angry about the fact that Belichick did something unconventional. (Trent Dilfer, come on down!.
My throwaway intuition notwithstanding, there seems to be good evidence that Belichick was right. [via Neyer.]...see also Beaudrot. I also think Belichick was right not to concede a touchdown -- whatever your respect for Manning, you can't treat it like a chip-shot field goal.Update (Paul):...
From the Jacksonville-Jets game:"It included a Jets defense trying to allow a touchdown to give Jacksonville the lead and the Jaguars refusing to score it. And it had nothing to.
One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our.
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington's NFL franchise won't play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season (their opponents will have been a combined 0-14 up until then). He also has some...
Malcom Gladwell asks a very good question.I'm a huge college football fan and like my NFL fix too. This article is to put it mildly extremely disturbing.I don't know whether.
This is a little story about a top high school football recruit whose life seems to be falling apart for all too common reasons. Of course you can multiply this.
No matter what we happen to think of the outcome of tonight's game, I think we can all agree that the Steelers' victory is good news for John McCain.
Straight-up, you obviously have to pick the Steelers; they're probably the best team in the league, going up against a team that is better than its regular season record but.
I sure hope that 98% of EPSN's news coverage consists of breathless reports about whether and where the 27th best QB in the NFL will play in 2009, just like.