Author Archives: Max West

Mad Men Revisionism

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Max West

I was an early fan of AMC’s Mad Men, but feel the show jumped the shark last year. If the current season’s premier is any indication, Matt Weiner’s freshman-level pedagogy will be all-but-clobbering us over the head this year, even … Continue reading →

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Proxy

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Max West

From Richard Benjamin’s Searching For Whitopia: An Improbable Journal To The Heart of White America (via VDARE): “Most whites are not drawn to place explicitly because it teems with other white people. Rather, the place’s very whiteness implies other perceived … Continue reading →

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Civil War Context

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Max West

Discussing his interest in the Civil War, and his recent listening to a Civil War audiobook, Derb puts into context Lincoln’s mythically-charged ‘Emancipation Proclamation’. It was less the holy moment we’re taught in history class, and more a pragmatic, military-oriented … Continue reading →

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Lioness

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Max West
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David Carr on the Future of TV

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Max West

After recently getting a Roku, outfitted with the Plex app (and all it can do), the day when the antiquated ‘cable TV package’ business model finally dies can’t come soon enough for me. Despite the obvious difficulty Charlie Rose has … Continue reading →

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Weiner Stiffens Resolve

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Max West

One of the great Andrew Breitbart’s final coup d’etats was his masterful takedown of the extraordinarily annoying Anthony Weiner (D-Narcissism), who has given a self-therapeutic interview to…. drumroll…. the NYT. Breitbart leaked bits of information each day, providing Weiner with … Continue reading →

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Phase Two (Overture)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Max West

And so it goes. Logical Meme originated back in 2005, in a pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter interweb era, as pajama-sportin’ bloggers began to upset the apple cart, actually reaching critical mass towards equalizing the power of the MSM narrative. (Think: Rather-gate; Breitbart’s … Continue reading →

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