Sudeep Sharma
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Great video!
I love the video Michael and I hope it finds a huge audience on YouTube becasue of its insightfulness. (I'm also amazed how Showgirls has remained, even 20 years later, such an endless object of contemplation) Politics as camp is a creative and helpf ... -
Twee politics
Thank you for this Rossend (was the mystery of what brother would become president ever revealed on Jack & Bobby?). I have to agree with Michael's article though. I really enjoyed the clip, especially the go to pizza ending, yet it also shows pol ... -
Appropriate political optics
Thank you for your response Jonathan. I don’t want to come off as flippant but I’m attempting to make my argument in the space allowed. I also want to point out I think I’m doing more of a discourse analysis here than a textual analysis. I don’t disagree ... -
Thank you, not just contrarianism
Thank you all for your responses. There is much I agree with, especially the point you can not reduce the meaning of the show to a single text with one, totalizing reading. Also, it is wrong to expect The Daily Show to fix all of the problems with our pol ... -
We own the brand
/*-->*/ I saw something similar as Brian was describing last year when I talked with a recent friend who taught at VCU. Their men’s basketball team had just made a surprised run to the Final Four and she was shocked that the upside for her was she no l ... -
Re: Bracketologos
The Nike bracket?
I've also been really confused by the regional breakdown of the NCCA brackets, especially considering part of the ranking is based on putting good teams in their "true" region so fans can attend. The end result is you have Final Four match ... -
Political possibilities and Penn State
I think any discussion of sports and its political possibilities has to consider what happened at Penn State as the negative example of what unimaginable things our institutions are capable of. The reason calls for college sports to be rethought and, more ...