Thursday, June 18, 2015

How Caitlyn Jenner masterfully played us for suckers - Theweek.com

From the Week (Damon Linker)
"...That's exactly what Jenner is giving us — and she's doing it masterfully, playing off America's addiction to what Tocqueville called the "perpetual utterance of self-applause." We love to feel good about ourselves. Conservatives satisfy the craving with gratuitous demonstrations of military prowess and unapologetic expressions of American exceptionalism. Liberals get it from grandiloquent displays of affirmation for the outsider — an affirmation that just so happens to demonstrate the affirming liberal's own moral superiority..."

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The most liberal and conservative jobs in America

You can probably guess that environmentalists and yoga instructors are more likely to be Democrats -- and oil workers to be Republicans. But what about flight attendants, talk show hosts, and neurosurgeons?

From the Washington Post








Economists are also more liberal...

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Fifa Movie Reviews in a few lines

A couple of reviews of the Fifa movie, Ultimate Passions (that was also funded by Fifa and released after Blatter resigned)
"According to The Hollywood Reporter, the FilmBar cinema in Phoenix reported takings of just $9, meaning only one person bought a ticket."
Even better from the Guardian
"As cinema it is excrement. As proof of corporate insanity it is a valuable case study."

The trailer below: