Politics
Jonathan Pope
Sarah Palin is a succubus for American liberals. We could deal with a pro-life, pro-oil, pro-war, pro-God wack-stupid Governor when he was from a rich political dynasty, but when it’s a she and she comes from Middle-earth and is insatiably proud of her own faults, she’s like the no-bullshit dream girl of our Woody Allen fantasies. Everyone compares her to Tina Fey; the better comparison is to Diane Keaton. Palin is turning the middle American dumbasserazzi on to the hotly nerdish girl, thirty years later; and, in the process, she’s getting liberal America wet and hard.
Culture Television
Darren Franich
Kara Thrace likes to drink too much and screw too often. She’s great at her job and hates her job. Her pop ditched her and her mom beat her. She hurts people who love her and pisses off everybody else. For one brief shining moment she found true love, then ditched the guy in the morning for a quickie marriage with a man she regularly cuckolds. She is without a doubt the most passionate, insane, terribly real person on TV, even if she lives on a spaceship, worships Athena, and can’t go two minutes without saying the expletive “frak” or one of its derivatives.
Culture Television
Darren Franich
It is impossible for two men to become good friends nowadays without someone—often multiple someones, including the two men themselves—characterizing the friendship in a homoerotic way. “Man crush” is the preferred terminology—originating, I maintain, from the confused emotions felt by a generation of young men who saw “Fight Club” and felt pretty much the same way about Brad Pitt as Edward Norton does in the movie—utterly in awe, passionately seeking to become his best friend and to become him.
