Orrin Konheim – Medium

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God’s Favorite Idiot (Netflix)-The premise of a modern-day prophet dealing with the absurdities of…

God’s Favorite Idiot (Netflix)-The premise of a modern-day prophet dealing with the absurdities of a religiously mixed-up world has already been done quite a bit before, most notably with Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s best-selling book “Good Omens” and its subsequent 2019 Amazon TV series. Ironically, that show came out…

Gods Favorite Idiot

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Aug 6

Note to John Oliver: How Not to Attack Tucker Carlson

Perhaps it’s a sign of the times and my weariness with the approaches of the Democratic party (which is my party) that I’m starting to find fault with a former hero of mine in John Oliver. Tucker Carlson: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) — YouTube Taking down Tucker…

Tucker Carlson

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Aug 1

What I’m Watching: July Edition

Severance (Apple Plus)-One of the best-developed science fiction worlds I’ve ever entered, Severance is about a world where a set of workers have their memories completely compartmentalized when they are in and out of work. Audience surrogate Helly (Britt Lower) works in a classified division of a faceless company who…

The Orville

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Jul 28

Elvis and the Non-Existent Cultural Appropriation Debate

There is no way that Baz Luhrmann could make Elvis and not get criticism for issues relating to race. If he includes B.B. King and Little Richard in his film, he will get accused of only paying lip-service to them. He’ll be accused of making a white savior film (a…

Elvis Presley

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Elvis and the Non-Existent Cultural Appropriation Debate

Jul 27

Five Notes on Orville and the Data Dilemna

1. In the debate over the best Captain — Kirk vs Picard — I’m starting to think we should make room for Ed Mercer in this debate. The Star Trek captains (at least the ones I saw before Star Trek came through an online subscription service) were more statuesque paragons…

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·Jul 20

Six Observations on the TV Show Monk (2002–2009)

Running on USA Network for seven seasons, Monk was a TV show with a slight whiff of serialization about a San Francisco police detective (Tony Shalhoub) with massive OCD who had a mental breakdown upon the death of his wife, and got kicked off the force. Throughout the duration of…

Monk

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Jul 18

Looking Back at the Era of the Innocent Political Comedy: 1600 Penn

This NBC show was released in a quaint era when our political landscape (at least here in the US) wasn’t so trauma-inducing that we can enjoy something politics adjacent as lightweight sitcom fare. This was also a coming out vehicle of sorts for Josh Gad who wrote the show and…

1600 Penn

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Jul 7

Post-Dobbs: The Era of American Depression

Is it me or is there an aura of depression enveloping this country lower than we’ve seen in the Trump era which I have long considered to be a reign of terror of sorts. The fact remains that a Democrat is president who is not a compulsive psychopath responsible for…

Occupy Wall Street

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Jul 6

We Got The Independence Day We Deserve This Time

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Jessica Wildfire

I agree so much that these past two weeks with Supreme Court rulings overriding the state of New…

I agree so much that these past two weeks with Supreme Court rulings overriding the state of New York on gun rights, overturning Roe v Wade and demolishing the EPA make this a tragic chapter in our history. …

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Jun 27

Senator Mike Lee: Know that Evil Name

Civics lesson of the day: Don’t just know the name Ted Cruz, Steve Bannon, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Meadows. Dig a little deeper and you’ll see there are a lot of awful, awful people in the Republican party and learn those names too. Senator Mike Lee of Utah…

Senator Mike Lee

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