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This is what I want to talk about today. I really want to address this. I feel like this article describes quite a few people who voted for Trump; the women, the Latinos, the African-Americans, et al. The article in a nutshell talks of a Muslim woman, an occupant of two of the demographics whom Trump has offended at every turn, and why she chose to vote for Trump. I want to talk about this because I just want to break down her arguments and understand why she did what she did. "But I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration." To which I say, congratulations your anecdotal evidence is more than enough proof that Obamacare and his mortgage loan modific

Suicide Squad is not very good. It's the worst kind of "not very good"; it isn't spectacularly awful, its not incredibly over-the-top, its not filled with that one standout character that makes everybody say "they saved the movie." No, it's just your run-of-the-mill aggressively average type of "not very good." The plot is straightforward and rote, none of the Squad are particularly memorable, Rope Guy dies in 2 minutes but I'm guessing everyone saw that one coming. There are so many problems in this movie, I kind of just want to break down each component one by one to see how detrimental each is to the movie. Let's start with point number one: The Joker. To put it bluntly, Jared Leto does not understand who the Joker is at all. Nicholson did, infusing the same manic energy he brought in "The Shining" with some who was cunning and twisted. Ledger did, eschewing humor for a very visible sense of off-kilter, demonstrating h

The Avalanches, for the sake of a formal definition, were a six piece electronic group who specialized in the under-appreciated genre of plunderphonics. Plunderphonics is an extremely niche sub-genre of electronic music whose entire sound revolves around the manipulation of sampled works to create a wholly original track. The reason plunderphonics as a genre has sort of died over these past couple of years relates solely to the way sample clearing has changed. It used to be much simpler back in the late Nineties and early 2000s, with the smaller-scale music publishers in the industry being more easy to negotiate with when it came to contracts determining how much to compensate the publisher for allowing use of the sample. Nowadays, those smaller scale publishers are borderline non-existent and the powerhouses of the music industry e.g. Universal Music Group, Epic Records. Sub-Pop, etc. find themselves less inclined to clear samples unless rather hefty percentages are given to them

This is Charlie Brooker. Many of you won't know who he is. And that's fine. But you should. Because Brooker is one of the finest comedians working today. His area of expertise? Satire. Charlie Brooker wears many hats. He was a games journalist, who then became a writer for "The Guardian" who then dipped his toe into television before fully submerging himself in the medium. Brooker is mainly known for two reasons: "Black Mirror" and his "Wipe" series. Both works deal heavily in satire, with his "Wipe" series acting as the more comedic outlet and "Mirror" leaning into its subversion. Both have received critical acclaim in Britain, yet remain frustratingly unknown on this side of the Atlantic. So, I figured I'd write something about him. Take his most recent Wipe on the year 2015. Brooker revels in his role as a satirist here, taking aim at the events that defined 2015 with the kind of glee one normally sees o