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Mark Fiore's Subversive Cartoons

Mark Fiore is a political Flash cartoonist who cranks out a new short almost every week. He is clearly a liberal Democrat and his cartoons slant that way, but even when I find the ideas annoying or simplistic, or superficially critical, the cartoons are still funny. There are objectively funny moments (if such things can be said to exist) even in the most unoriginal Sarah Palin gag. Which is an accomplishment. I’ll watch anything that’s funny, and then once I’ve watched it even if I disagree with the ideas they’ll stay in my mind.

Check out “The Spies Who Love You” and “Ability.”

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Game Culture

September 12

Play is one of the earliest and most important activities of mammals; helping adolescents learn the skills they need to survive. Games take the free play of the animal kingdom and apply rules and constraints, which have the ability to teach and develop the values and beliefs of a culture. The chess queen developed as a dominant piece during a period of strong European matriarchs. Monopoly is an altered version of The Landlord Game–a model of the Marxist critique of property. Today, some videogame designers are creating tools for critical play.
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