Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Beltway Goggles: What does “Postpartisan” mean anymore? (Yay Healthcare)

Image via Wikipedia First off, I am very happy about the news about the health care bill. It’s a bill of incalculable impact on the American public, and it has already established Obama’s first term as more successful than Clinton’s. I’m uncomfortable with the decision on abortion, but looking at the vote totals, it may [...]

Why I quit being an arts and entertainment blogger

And why I became an A & E writer B5media’s controversial firing of entertainment bloggers last month had the blogosphere nuts (here, here, and here) but it didn’t surprise me in the slightest. I knew some bloggers who worked and helped create b5 media, and many of them left the company right before this bombshell. They [...]

Kanye West and the Formula for New Media Disaster

Days like these are the worst days to be on the Internet. There are glaring problems with the coverage of Kanye West that I would willingly ignore if I thought they’d ever go away. So allow me to address how this story, like dozens before it, has progressed. Something shocking happens, usually on television. Either [...]

Hate Crime Bill Should Be Used To Revive Interest in Fighting Rape in Pornography

This is something of a break in Tynan’s Anger, I don’t usually engage in explicit political arguments here, but this is something I feel very strongly about; it does relate to theater, film, music and new media tangentially, but only as it relates to society at large. It is easy to understand the divisiveness that [...]

Why Jose Canseco Is The Sen. McCarthy Of Baseball

Let’s stop calling Jose Canseco a “whistleblower.” The term whistleblower implies someone courageously sacrificed one’s own well-being and risked his or her safety, way of life, and even death to expose a hidden, dark secret. Jeffrey Wigand was a whistleblower, as was “Deep Throat” W. Mark Felt. Canseco did not deny his steroid use, and [...]