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Denny Carter

Denny Carter

'Christmas Vacation' Is A Takedown of Capitalism

'Christmas Vacation' Is A Takedown of Capitalism

There's a specter haunting National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation” – the specter of communism, or socialism, or maybe just a general leftist hostility toward capitalism. Some of our most vaunted Christmas movies assail the very underpinnings of the consumerist machine churning furiously at the heart of this season of

Power Dynamics, Bad Faith, And The War on Christmas

Power Dynamics, Bad Faith, And The War on Christmas

I once told a right-wing filmmaker that my kindly old grandmother had been arrested and held without bond for wishing a Target cashier Merry Christmas. President Obama, I said, had created a special federal law enforcement task force tasked with snuffing out the last vestiges of traditional Christmastime celebration in

How To Talk To An Economic Doomer

How To Talk To An Economic Doomer

One strategy for convincing someone that the economy is actually good is to get directly in front of their face and spout off economic data and measurements until spittle is raining down on the skeptic. If you go on long enough – if you cite enough valid statistics that demonstrate a

They Want The Robots To Be Racist

They Want The Robots To Be Racist

I have a bad habit of pretending the right-wing mind is some labyrinthian construct that one can only comprehend by sinking oneself into the deepest depths of conservative thought. Then I see right wingers begging machines to be racist and I realize how fucking stupid I’ve been, how needlessly

The Science of the Squishy Lib

The Science of the Squishy Lib

Open mindedness, generosity, tolerance, finding common ground in our humanity: This is what the libs want. By “the libs,” I don’t mean anyone to the left of Newt Gingrich, but rather folks who have tightened their blindfolds during our slow but steady descent into fascism and have hoped against

I’m Begging The Democrats To Watch TV

I’m Begging The Democrats To Watch TV

Americans are raving with praise for a show about a billionaire family being tormented and killed by a saucy little demon and Democrats are shying away from an Eat The Rich ethos. That millions of Americans are titillated by the suffering of the wealthy on their TV screens apparently means

The Free Speech Warriors And Their Bad-Faith Game

The Free Speech Warriors And Their Bad-Faith Game

Any time I wonder what kind of speech the Free Speech Warriors are defending, I’m reminded of the ocean of bad faith in which they so happily swim. Two or three times a year, the world’s foremost Free Speech Lovers will get together and sign a statement about