Pop Culture
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Lost Eko
[Ed. note: For commentary on third-season episode "The Cost of Living" in which Eko is killed by the Smoke Monster go here. For commentary about other lost episode browse here. The following commentary is about The 23rd Psalm, the second-season episode in which we first learn about Eko's story. From the perspective of the series
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King Kong: Modernity & Its Discontents
Talking about having your cake and eating it too, check out this fascinating piece on NPR's Sunday Weekend Edition that puts King Kong in cultural context. It fits well with what I've been writing about the past week or so. Kong is the symbol of the ambivalence we feel toward the primitive past. It also
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Desperate Housewives & The Big Lie
I didn't watch the show last year, but I've tried to catch it when I can this season. The character who interests me most is the widowed housewife, Bree. Is the subplot about her relationship with George the writers' attempt to make a political point? Bree is a good, likable person and a model of
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Part IV: House, The Purgatorio Man
If you’ve been following the logic of the three preceding pieces on Original Sin, it should be clear that there is no necessary moral difference between being naughty or nice. Being nice means for the most part being well socialized, which has the moral equivalence of being potty trained. Being nice is what we are