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 [...]

My new years resolution: Watching Maddow over Stewart/Colbert

Image via Wikipedia In the new decade, I am looking to overcome masking my cynicism and resentment in jokes and contrarianism, and starting to apply my need to stay with the news of the world while not getting aggravated. Contrary to popular assumptions, the depressing state of news doesn’t make me so exhausted that I [...]

An Open Letter To Christopher Hitchens From A Recovering Young Contrarian [TYNAN'S LETTERS]

Cover via Amazon Dear Mr. Hitchens, I was very pleased to have encountered your book Letters to a Young Contrarian. I was especially greatful to have encountered it this year, when I am 23, as opposed to 18, when it probably would have been the kind of book to change my life. No doubt, Mr. [...]

The Dark Side of Internet Dumb-ocracy

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?-Henrik Ibsen, “An Enemy of the People” The Internet, as [...]

Election Links, since i’m far too buzzed to sleep

Image by abbyladybug via FlickrHow to run a Web 2.0 campaign [Herald-Tribune] Maybe it’s good we lost in 2004 [Mother Jones] What we need for the Obama presidency: more hope, less Keynes [Forbes] What will the media do now? Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. [Gawker] Satire just became a much harder job [Salon] The most eloquent statement [...]