On Horror Chick, With Melissa Lafsky: Why the 'Saw' Movies Are the Most Important Films Ever Made (No, Really)
The answer is simple: American guilt.
Looks like there's more than one thing in the theater projecting.
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On Real America with Abe Sauer: The Britney Spears Tailgate Parking Lot, Ticketmaster, Bruce Springsteen, the Death of the Live Music Video and You
The description of the arena reminded me of when my grandparents took me to Six Flags Autoworld in Flint, MI (they lived in Detroit) back in the mid '80s -- this misbegotten civic initiative that was supposed to revitalize everything but was a colossal failure. (See Roger & Me for more fun times!)
A lot of the Britney-bashing has more than its share of classist overtones, but there's also the intellectual-resentment factor of the blogosphere (which has been the tide of this particular decade of celebricrap). If you're an insecure, resentful liberal arts grad with nothing to really distinguish you, whiling away in your pointless office job, the schadenfreude of an uneducated blonde bimbo making it big and then crashing to earth in a sea of dumb-people clichés might get you through the day without realizing how empty your own life is. Also, women calling other women "skank" is fun!
Finally, Bruce Springsteen's music is, has been, and always shall be fucking terrible, and frankly he should be paying Real America for tolerating his godawful songs for as long as we have.
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On It is SO Joe Nocera's year.
In before degradation of purpose/loss of editorial focus
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On Dear Conservative Movement: Stop Ruining My Life, by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Public masturbation.