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“The Duchess of Sussex and Harry wanting to have a ‘progressive’ new royal court I think will come up at odds with the old system.” “It’s ridiculous of you to say ‘we don’t know the Queen didn’t know about this’ when courtiers have absolutely briefed the press that the Queen did so,” Anna remarked. ‘No, […]
A malevolent Russia plotting against the Free World is a trope for the Western press, but mysteriously, plots attributed to Kremlin machinations are somehow never realized. RT looks at how the mainstream media’s Russia scaremongering proves baseless. Examples of the trend past and present are not hard to find. Arguably the biggest at the moment […]
The Punch Escrow releases on July 25. (credit: Inkshares) The teleportation accident is an all-too-common trope of science fiction. The moral quandary of teleporters as “suicide boxes” and as potential human duplicators has been grist for many science fiction and speculative fiction writers, from George Langelaan’s 1957 short story “The Fly” to China Miéville’s 2010 novel Kraken […]
[Image: szk_glks] In anime and manga, when characters get excited—often sexually excited—blood dribbles, or squirts, out of their noses. But is this backed by medical science? Nope! Advertisement The notion that arousal or excitement induces bloody noses (hanaji or “鼻血”) isn’t just part of anime or manga iconography. It’s also become an old wives’ tale […]
When Scandal premiered on ABC in 2012, it was famously the first network drama with a black female lead since 1974’s Get Christie Love!, a cop show in the mold of Blaxploitation films that lasted just one season. In the beginning, Scandal’s heroine, the Washington fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), wore the “white hat,” as […]
