
With controversy over the Slave Leia costume heating up to the point where even Carrie Fisher felt obliged to weigh in, sex in nerd culture is once more getting smeared by the media. Indeed, one could argue that the Slave
by Mytheos Holt31 Dec 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

When Anita Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs Women in Video Games” series of feminist criticism videos came out, many gamers reacted with anger at their hobby being slandered.
by Mytheos Holt2 Nov 2015, 10:14 AM PST0

This week saw the release of the gritty, ultra-violent, balls-to-the-wall awesome twin stick shooter Hatred, a game best described as being to gaming what Reefer Madness would be to drugs, if it had been an intentional satire made by the drug lobby.
by Mytheos Holt6 Jun 2015, 6:55 AM PST0
There is a quote – endlessly repeated and often misattributed to Winston Churchill – that runs something like the following: If you are 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a conservative,
by Mytheos Holt20 Jun 2010, 5:03 AM PST0
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation – a libertarian leaning organization – recently released a video featuring Foundation Vice-President Tom G. Palmer. Titled “Free Trade: The Great Prosperity Machine,” the video aims to make a compelling case for why free trade
by Mytheos Holt11 Jun 2010, 9:51 AM PST0
If you’ve been watching the fiasco surrounding the oil spill in the gulf, you already know the mainstream media meme that has cropped up around it. “Yes, President Obama has failed to stop the spill thus far,” the press tell
by Mytheos Holt3 Jun 2010, 6:47 AM PST0
Given the strong prospects for GOP resurgence in the upcoming elections, and the intimate connection which said resurgence is sure to have with the fortunes of the Tea Party Movement, it is no surprise that advice is presently being offered
by Mytheos Holt12 May 2010, 12:41 PM PST0
As any exasperated advocate of commonsense education reform can tell you, liberals and their allies in the teachers unions will, like drunken spammers, never cease to declaim on how “PUBLIC EDUCATION NEEDS MORE MONEYS LOL.” Yet, as highlighted in the
by Mytheos Holt13 Mar 2010, 9:24 AM PST0
As anyone who has any recollection of the aftermath of the 2008 election cycle knows, the GOP is hopelessly behind on the internet, cannot possibly marshal any web resources on its behalf because it’s stuck in the 19th century politically
by Mytheos Holt7 Mar 2010, 1:21 PM PST0