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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 and simple Jungle Book, which served as both a new adaptation of Kipling and a remake of the classic Disney cartoon. Then, a new Tarzan …
Continue reading Some Thoughts and Observations That Won’t Appear in My Next Blog Post
Trump and the Joker have been compared many times. Let's take a close look at how much they resemble one another.
"This has never been about who the nominee is," Paul Ryan said yesterday, explaining why his party will fight any Supreme Court justice nomination made by Barack Obama in 2016, and why they are specifically going to fight the nomination of Merrick Garland. This, from a party ostensibly dedicated to the Constitution. This response to the President's …
Continue reading How the Republicans Have Become the Political Equivalent of Batman’s Villains
It's a strange thing when a celebrity dies. Some people mourn for days or weeks or months. Others feel ostracized when it's someone whose work they didn't know, outside the world of grief. I recall the deaths of Kurt Cobain (I was 8) and Princess Diana (I was 11) with confusion, a sense of not knowing …
This is one of many articles on this site comparing the current state of American politics to the world of Batman. Read more here, or buy D. F. Lovett's debut novel here for only $4.99. In an editorial published on 7/23/15, The Economist likened Donald Trump to Heath Ledger's Joker: Mr Trump's lust for attention, …
Continue reading How accurate is The Economist in comparing Donald Trump to The Joker?
On the first page of The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway tells us about a piece of advice his father gave him: "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” Carraway goes on to tell us that he attempts to …