Total Eclipse

Listen to the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves, Howard Beale.

“You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information train is jammed, man!” – the character of Jeffery Goines, in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys.
A disturbing thought has occurred to me, one which relates to a mess of other thoughts concerning our culture and it’s biases.
I often [...]

Tom n’ Jerry cartoons get a makeover. It seems the latest program in revisionist Orwellian historiography is to edit out scenes in vintage cartoons in which the main characters smoke, in a manner which is not depicted as a blatant mistake or wrongdoing. Villians in the show will still be allowed to keep their [...]