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Name: Shannon Jacobs
Gender: Male
Hometown: Big Stupid Texas
Home country: Alice's Wonderland
Current location: Mars
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 349
Gender: Male
Hometown: Big Stupid Texas
Home country: Alice's Wonderland
Current location: Mars
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 349
About Me
Feeling kind of old these days, but still reading lots of books. These days it seems like you have to divide books into BT and PU, as in Before Trump and Post Unimaginable. Interesting BT example this week: A 2012 book called "Super Mario" about Nintendo, but on page 154 the author makes a joke about "odder than Bowser's Donald Trump ambitions." I'm sure it seemed funny at the time, but I'm not laughing much in these PU days. And no, I don't play computer games these years and I've never owned a Nintendo nor even played any of the Mario games, but it just shows how thoroughly #Brokeahontas had invaded our entire society that he appeared in so many books even when he was just a punchline that no one could take seriously.
Journal Archives
Big debates are FAKE! How can we do better?
Posted by shanen | Sat Jun 22, 2019, 04:35 PM (30 replies)
The Imposters: The comedy I want to see and join
Posted by shanen | Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:43 PM (3 replies)
How did a bottle of wine in Oberlin, Ohio get ramped up to $11 million?
Posted by shanen | Mon Jun 10, 2019, 07:38 PM (3 replies)
The legal and Constitutional case against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
Posted by shanen | Mon Jul 23, 2018, 04:19 PM (9 replies)
Suggestion: Dual icon system to help recognize who's worth listening to
Posted by shanen | Thu Dec 21, 2017, 06:52 PM (3 replies)
Would the Bolshevik Republicans backstab the Donald for the 2018 election?
Posted by shanen | Tue Dec 5, 2017, 06:13 PM (1 replies)