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  • ‘I Am Mother’: Brainless Diversion… but With a Darker Point

    ‘I Am Mother’: Brainless Diversion… but With a Darker Point0

    Warning: contains spoilers Post-apocalyptic shows and movies never seem to go out of style. Netflix is trying to corner part of this lucrative market with its own original content. Their latest addition to the canon is a movie called “I am Mother.” As is customary in such movies, we start by learning that a post-apocalyptic

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  • ‘How to Handle a Woman’

    ‘How to Handle a Woman’4

    Now, there’s a title that will wake the woke, particularly females, and send them roaring my way with brickbats and scalping knives. That word “handle” in particular splashes kerosene on the fires of rage, implying as it does some sort of manipulator. Yet “How to Handle a Woman” is the name of a song in

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  • ‘Hollywood Also Signed Up’: 80 Years of World War II in Cinema

    ‘Hollywood Also Signed Up’: 80 Years of World War II in Cinema0

    No event in human history has fascinated filmmakers so much as the Second World War. One estimate suggests that as of 2014, there have been over 1,300 movies made about World War II, and that number has only grown since then, with two more entries arriving in theaters this year: Sisu, the brutal story of

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  • ‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’

    ‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’5

    On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.” They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The

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  • ‘Happy You Day’: Mother’s Day Cards Go Gender-Neutral in UK

    ‘Happy You Day’: Mother’s Day Cards Go Gender-Neutral in UK0

    A grocery chain in the United Kingdom has drawn media attention for selling gender-neutral Mother’s Day cards to make the day more “transgender inclusive.” Waitrose, an upscale grocery, stocked transgender-friendly cards among its selection for Mother’s Day, which was March 11 in the U.K. Some examples of gender-inclusive card slogans and greetings include: “Happy You

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  • ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’: A biggest lie of 2015

    ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’: A biggest lie of 20150

    The Washington Post has published its annual list of the “biggest Pinocchios of the year” for 2015.  The list is almost entirely composed of politicians of all stripes telling whoppers. No surprise there. What was surprising was the inclusion of the phrase “Hands up, don’t shoot” which was spawned after Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO

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