“Barbie” is pop. “Oppenheimer” is rock and roll. Sure, “Barbie’s gross exceeded that of “Oppenheimer,” $162 million to $82.4 million, but “Oppenheimer” will have longer legs in the public consciousness, because when you go deep, that’s when people resonate. Now if you weren’t aware of “Barbie,” you were living disconnected in Ted Kaczynski’s old shack […]

We already know this guy is a right wing, racist prick, but what exactly are we accomplishing by amplifying this story? Just hardening his fans to him. Aldean becomes a beacon, a rallying point for people just like him. Meanwhile, the holier-than-thou police, most of whom have never heard of Jason Aldean, or only through […]

Re: The Forgotten Girls Bob as usual, whenever you delve into politics, you completely mis represent things  because you are a delusional follower of Marxism. That is absolutely not what conservative values are about. True these towns are screwed up for many different reasons, and conservative with money care, and help a poor person no […]

“The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America”: https://tinyurl.com/mryc7n8c This is the real “Hillbilly Elegy.” If you want to understand the rural MAGA mentality, this is the place. What we’ve got here is Clinton, Arkansas. Not Fayetteville, the hip Arkansas, not Little Rock, the urban Arkansas, but nowhere Arkansas, where […]