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My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies 1
- Culture, Philosophy, Religion
- January 8, 2024
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad one for some people. That would be a different essay, however. This is not an essay
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Steamboat Willie and Intellectual Property 1
- Culture, Economics
- January 5, 2024
You’ve likely already seen him freely used across the Internet over the last two days. As of 2024, Steamboat Willie, the cartoon which introduced Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. This means that Steamboat Willie and its depictions of Mickey Mouse is fair game for any usage (I’d guess Disney likely will still try to
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January 6: An Insurrection by a Government Against Its People 14
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 5, 2024
On January 6, 2021, I attended the Save America March in Washington, D.C. On January 7, Intellectual Takeout published my account of that rally. A friend had obtained VIP tickets for our little band of adults and children, giving us seats about 20 yards from the speaker’s platform. As I mention in the article, the
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Friday Comic: Mini-Me 1
- Entertainment
- January 5, 2024
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Why Is ‘The New York Times’ Upset by Bluey’s Wholesome Dad?5
- MomThink
- January 4, 2024
Positive paternal portrayals in entertainment media are few and far between these days. Depictions of deadbeat dads are far more commonplace, whether seen in shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, South Park, Family Guy, or most notably, The Simpsons. Even in many cartoons pitched at the youngest of children, fathers are routinely represented as lazy, incompetent
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The Classic Poem That Helped Inspire the ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel 0
- Featured, Entertainment, Literature
- January 4, 2024
One of cinema’s most popular characters is based on a haunting 1799 poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was a movie released in November and based on the novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. Both book and film are prequels to
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