Category: Pop Culture

Angels and Autobots

“We are not alone, are we?” In the trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, mission control asks astronaut Neil Armstrong this question as he and Buzz Aldrin investigate a crashed spacecraft on the lunar surface. The camera dives into the wreckage where we see an old Autobot lying lifeless—until one of his eyes lights […]

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Santa Coug

Tomorrow, December 4th, is the Apple Cup. As a Cyber Coug, WSU Class of 2009, I would like all of my friends, coworkers, and family members who are Huskies to keep something in mind as they’re psyching themselves up for the big game.

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Who’s Fair and Balanced Now?

GASP!! Ohhhh! Did a media figure actually practice their constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech? Did they step outside of their scripted, sterile, cardboard environment and show some personality? I am simply disgusted that National Public Radio fired Juan Williams. He expressed an honest opinion on the Fox News channel that surely didn’t sit […]

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Jim Taylor: I Don’t Care

Dr. Jim Taylor is one of my favorite psychology bloggers. He always gets my attention when he writes about pop culture and the quizzical role it has in today’s society. With his permission, I am re-blogging his latest piece, “I Don’t Care about LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or…” A couple of my friends and […]

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Silly Therapy

Today while running errands in Seattle, I decided to visit the Archie McPhee store at its new location in Wallingford. They moved to 45th and Stone Way from Ballard in mid-2009. I dooon’t liiikkkeee being in Seattle for long. There’s only a few places I ever go to in Seattle on purpose. I can’t stand […]

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Keep Looking Up

Yesterday in Florida, Jack Horkheimer, the longtime host of “Star Gazer” on public television, died at the age of 72. Horkheimer was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium for three and a half decades. He had no formal astronomy training, but with his trademark infectious enthusiasm, brought the wonders of the universe […]

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Digging Deeper

Today Colton Harris-Moore pled guilty to entering the Bahamas illegally and was released to U.S. custody. He is now in Miami and will appear in federal court tomorrow. Harris-Moore told locals that he’d planned to travel to Cuba from the Bahamas, but told authorities he wanted to land in the Turks and Caicos. There’s fresh […]

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Sitcom Wives

It’s all about you. Or so many popular sitcoms would have women think. Since the early 90s I have puzzled over why so many wife-mother figures on TV nag, nitpick, and otherwise treat their husbands like they’re mindless little boys in need of constant correction. The leading ladies on Home Improvement, King of Queens, and […]

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