Anyone familiar with the popular animated TV show, The Simpsons, might remember the sign that Mr. Burns gifts Homer at the end of the the episode And Maggie Makes Three. I quickly whipped up a replica sign in Photoshop and put it on the wall in-front of my colleague’s desk as a goof, because that’s…
Tag: DFW
The Charming Irrelevance of Russell Brand
Last night, I watched uncomfortably as Russell Brand ranted at Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight. Coming across more as a disaffected first-year-undergraduate-soc-and-pol-student than any sort of credible political commentator, Brand demonstrated not only an unsettling propensity towards demagoguery, but to be the most frustrating kind of citizen. That is, one that doesn’t vote. In fact,…