Dear White People is the name of Justin Simien’s first feature film. Without any hyperbole, this might be one of the best debuts in filmmaking: knowing but not snarky, self-aware but not solipsistic, open to influence and confident in its own originality. It’s a clever campus comedy that juggles a handful of hot potatoes — race, sex, privilege, power — with elegant agility and only an occasional fumble. You want to see this movie, and you will want to talk about it afterward, even if the conversation feels a little awkward. If it doesn’t, you’re doing it wrong. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘Dear White People’
Day: March 19, 2015
No more band camp for Secret Service
There’s one way to make sure the U.S. Secret Service doesn’t very lightly run into their own barricades while protecting the President: build a second White House.
No, they haven’t hit the bottle again while watching Blazing Saddles, foiling terrorists by sending them to a fake White House. The Secret Service just thinks it would make more sense to train in a facility that actually resembles the place they defend every day. This would be a substantial upgrade over
‘… a parking lot, basically,’ said Joseph Clancy, director of the Secret Service. ‘We put up a makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence at the White House and the actual house itself. We don’t have the bushes, we don’t have the fountains, we don’t get a realistic look at the White House.’
We fully support this idea and believe construction should begin immediately. But, no Irish!
… OK, the Irish, too.
The cow’s valued at how much?
A cow was stolen in Florida. This begs the question: there are cows in Florida? But, more than that, outcry has arisen due to its owner stating the value of the cow at $641. This apparently brings the theft up to grand theft.
This begs a bigger question: if an animal’s value is under three-quarters of a grand, does the animal even matter?
Given that the value of an animal is under zero, we think we know the answer to the question.
Nevada considering pot for pets, your dog wants to go to Vegas
The War on Drugs and the War on Animals have a rare meeting in this one.
The Nevada state legislature is considering allowing you to get your pets high. A state senator introduced an amendment to a larger bill, that essentially means your pet can have pot, you know, for “medicinal purposes.”
Folks, weakening our animal foes with vice is one thing, but pets are a different category. Our pets are lazy as it is. And you think your dog chews up everything in the house now? Just wait until Fido’s got the munchies. How are you even going to feed them this stuff? Have you ever tried to give a cat any medication? And you know you can’t give dogs brownies.