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Category: 2016 Election

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No More Gritty Reboots: Why Lego Batman and Legion Are the Future of Superheroes

12 Feb 201731 May 2017
Yes, this blog is dedicated to "an ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot." But, as written about in the previous post on this blog, The World Needs Bad…
2016…

The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero

22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022
How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
2016…

The True Theme of 2016: Never Meet Your Heroes

28 Dec 201611 Apr 2019
Hating 2016 and wishing for it to end has perhaps been the meme of 2016. It has been called a dumpster fire and was declared to "even sucked for Kim Kardashian." Beginning…
2016 Election…

Some Thoughts and Observations That Won’t Appear in My Next Blog Post

8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016
Sometimes, I don't want to dedicate a full blog post to an idea, but I still want to share the idea. Is 2016 the Year of the Feral Child? First, a fun…
2016 Election…

How the Republican Establishment Has Become South Park’s Stan Marsh

10 May 20167 Jul 2016
Jeb(!) Bush recently made headlines by declaring he would not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, proclaiming "I cannot support his candidacy." With this announcement, he has fallen…
2016 Election…

If the Candidates Were Characters in a ’90s Action Movie: A 2016 Election Cheat Sheet

4 Feb 201615 Feb 2016
Iowa is behind us. That's the good news. We don't have to hear about Iowa anymore. The bad news is that this whole charade has nearly another year left, and…
2016 Election…

What We Failed to Learn About Terrorism from The Dark Knight

5 Dec 201517 Feb 2018
Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer…

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