On my chosen subject of politics, Twitter is replete with the most intellectual idiots you can imagine. There are whole crowds of “moderate” Republicans walking (tweeting?) around just sho...
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Tag: politics
Anything vaguely political in nature
I’m interviewing for a writing job so I feel like I should be watching my mouth here. Luckily, race in America is no longer an issue, amirite? Falcon and the Winter Soldier has entered the rotat...
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(Pols499) Gunning For Votes: Finding Connections Between Campaign Funding and Congressional Support.
My last semester at CSUCI was the first semester of lockdown, and those months got pretty weird. My sense of time got all mushed- that spring break lasted a solid month, basically. Then I had to spend...
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I have this egotistic conception of myself as a writer, offering up my voice to the National Conversation. Which is nutty but whatever. I read these ‘think’ pieces from knowledgeable peopl...
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My last semester included two environmental classes. First was the parks course from which the Wrigley presentation was posted. The other was pols340, politics and the environment. The professor was t...
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I skipped over a question set from this module, the responses for Wag the Dog. The movie was only ok, and the writing didn’t really add anything to the experience so I gave it a pass. I’m ...
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Weird- here’s another one where I remember doing the writing more than I remember the actual film. How are ratings portrayed as significant, and do you think your viewing practices affect a netw...
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There’s been bunches of writing lately, I kinda wanted a little break from that. Decided to pull this from its place later in line to break up the pace here. This was the last semester, and I wa...
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Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America? Wh...
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God, I hated this movie. That’s all I remember about it; how irritating it was to watch. Still liking my writing though. A Pulp Fiction joke, ‘noble civil savages’, there’s som...
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