U.S. News & World Report recently released its 2016 Best High School rankings, which raises two questions: 1) What is considered a “public” school and 2) Why are we ranking public schools if they are all receiving the same funding? Are low-income children doomed?
Worried that the mainstream media would lose focus of the serious issues highlighted during the Ferguson, Mo., unrest, Soundtrack of the Week has broadcasted a weekly report since August 2014 addressing police violence and other related stories. This is the print edition and will continue until significant change has been realized.
Worried that the mainstream media would lose focus of the serious issues highlighted during the Ferguson, Mo., unrest, Soundtrack of the Week has broadcasted a weekly report since August 2014 addressing police violence and other related stories. This is the print edition and will continue until significant change has been realized.
The Missouri primary election was an extremely close race for both parties. Some voters had to wait 2 hours to vote. How many voters turned away? Did long lines affect the primaries?
After studying Africana Womanism–an alternative to feminism which doesn’t make room for Black woman of the African diaspora–Cristin Blunt explores what it means to her.
Ty spent a year listening to and analyzing 250 interviews on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast to explore the advantages of socioeconomic upbringing. Here are the results…
Despite Hollywood foreign press assessment, this is NOT a comedy, but it’s a damn good science porn flick.
Every year, Soundtrack of the Week does an Academy Award show with TV.com writer Ben Knight. To get you juiced up for the show, Ty reviews each Best Picture nominee to help you decide which movies to not waste your time on and which movies to torrent off the internet instead of paying $40 at the movie theaters. Today’s film review: “Room.”
A recent study reveals that auto insurance companies are charging renters more compared with homeowners. Ty explains how the cost of living has made life for Millennials the worst since the Great Depression.
Every year, Soundtrack of the Week does an Academy Award show with TV.com writer Ben Knight. To get you juiced up for the show, Ty reviews each Best Picture nominee to help you decide which movies to not waste your time on and which movies to torrent off the internet instead of paying $40 at the movie theaters. Today’s film review: “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
Social Justice Warriors are claiming that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are perpetuating the #RapeCulture. They couldn’t be more wrong…
The Iowa Caucus is an event that we arbitrarily deemed important in the presidential election process. A bunch of white people in the Midwest get to shape the narrative of the presidential race. It’s dumb.
With that said, let’s see what information we can glean from this bullshit vote.
WARNING: contains some spoilers from the 2016 premiere. It wasn’t that long ago when proclaiming you were a fan of The X-Files was admitting your nerdiness. It was the show for D&D players with bad acne and terrible clothes, television for people who were into computers before computers mattered. It was sort of a…
If you didn’t play the record-breaking Powerball on Wednesday, you’re an idiot. Ty explains why…
New Jersey’s legislature recently passed a bill that would raise the legal smoking age to 21. More specifically, no one under 21 can purchase tobacco products (including e-cigarettes). Many anti-smoking groups believe this will help reduce underage smoking, and therefore, the number of adult regular smokers. It won’t. The idea behind increasing the purchasing…
Actor. Filmmaker. Political activist. According to Wikipedia, those titles are Sean Penn’s occupations. What you won’t find is “journalist”. Why? Because he’s not. Penn is under fire after Rolling Stone published an interview he did with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, one of the world’s most wanted men before this past weekend. The interview was published…
I went through the majority of my formative music listening years without ever really knowing who Deep Purple was. In elementary school, I knew Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth. When I reached middle school, I got into The Beatles, The Doors and Pink Floyd. By high school, my tastes refined into King Diamond, The Stooges…
Millennials are a bunch of whiny, entitled assholes. That’s the narrative all of the “old people” have been shouting across social media and in real life. It is also the same narrative that every generation since the beginning of time has been saying about the younger generation. But this may be the first time…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole, aka…
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Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole,…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole, aka…
I remember when Conan O’Brien was announced as the successor of Jay Leno, and I sat there thinking that it was the new generation’s turn to take over network television by giving one of their own the biggest throne. Conan represented the goofy alternative that was synonymous with kids growing up through the 1990s. To…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole, aka…
That scene is from the film “The New Guy,” which is about a nerd who becomes the big man on campus by way of becoming a bad ass. He’s the same loveable guy on the inside, but in order for people to take him seriously, drastic measures had to be taken. This is the 2015…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole,…
camaraderie (ˌkæməˈrɑːdərɪ) n a spirit of familiarity and trust existing between friends The Royals possess and exhibit camaraderie. The Oakland A’s do as well. So does every single team in baseball or any sport for that matter. More importantly, the fans of a team share the same camaraderie with one another. As the above definitions suggests, camaraderie is a wonderful thing.…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole,…
1,476 miles $150 in gas 22 hours 42 radio dial changes 8 million construction cones (in Texas alone). Those are some roundtrip stats to Austin, Texas, from Kansas City. For the first time, I made the journey to the hipster capital of the world to attend the one of the largest indie music festivals…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole,…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole, aka…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column sponsored by Soundtrack of the Week that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around…
Facebook is a breeding ground for stupidity, ignorance and subtle (sometimes overt) racism and prejudice. Since shaming is a good way to get people to change, let’s call them out on their BS. Facebook Fallacies is a weekly column that debunks all of the stupid shit floating around Satan’s asshole, aka Facebook. Babies are…
It was going to happen eventually, just nobody thought it would happen this fast: Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show. Stewart has done more with that franchise than anyone could possibly imagine. Starting way back in the pre-9/11 days, he walked an entire generation through the 21st century and set the tone on how…
Last week, I questioned your music choices. This week, I’m questioning your ability to read…for pleasure. While you are listening to your favorite song on the radio or some app (promoted and paid for by a record label) during an intense session of Candy Crush as you wait for a movie to download on…
What’s your favorite radio station?* Turn to it right now and write down what song is playing. Chances are that song will be played – along with a handful of others – ad nauseam throughout the day. There is an equal chance that the record label – not the radio personality – is responsible for…
When it comes to branding, there may be no tool more important than social media. And when it comes to entities that have a desperate need to revamp their branding image, police departments rank high on the list…especially the St. Louis. Mo. police department. Let’s look to the KCPD for inspiration. In January 2013, I…
WARNING: Harsh realities ahead. SPOILER ALERT: Stick around. Silver linings are also ahead. Only one city gets to celebrate at the end of a season. Twenty-nine others will be disappointed, jaded, heartbroken. San Francisco is used to victory. Kansas City is used to defeat. That’s life. So why does this hurt so much after nearly…
We all know the story of David vs. Goliath: a tale where the underdog defeats the giant. Its message is anyone can overcome the odds, regardless of the opponent in your way. The unlikely heroes, the Kansas City Royals, are literally facing Giants. It’s a story that is making media producers have the biggest hard-on.…
#BringBackSungWoo That’s the hashtag going viral on KC Twitter as of this writing. People in Kansas City love that story, and the people involved with making it happen love it even more. I can be “that guy” and argue the exploitation of a human being as a PR stunt, but honestly, I don’t give a…
Drug testing began as a means of making sure people in certain highly dangerous jobs weren’t showing up intoxicated. No one wants the mechanic welding while railing PCP. I feel pretty confident in that. But testing, like so many good ideas, has spiraled out of control. Nowadays up to 62% of all jobs require drug…
Every time a new generation starts to enter adulthood, the older generations bitch and complain about how lazy they are. It happens every time. For the Millennials, this assessment may actually be accurate, and it may not be a bad thing. A BBC article approaches the topic of Millennials in the workplace. At first read,…
Homeownership signifies that you have become a fully functional adult. You’re no longer a child or immature. Also, homeownership indicates that mom and dad have money. A new study reveals that 27 percent of first-time homeowners received money from relatives or friends for their down payment, up 24 percent from last year and likely to…
Let’s say you own a business that sells bellbottoms. It’s the ‘70s and every Pink Floyd fan that’s smoking dank weed is buying them, i.e. everyone is buying your product. Now’s it’s the ‘80s and the youth have switched over to Motley Crue leather pants and whatever the hell the New Wave kids are wearing.…
Bucket Challenges, marathons, quirky t-shirts, pub crawls. You name a disease that more than a dozen people have, and there is probably a campaign raising money for it. These shenanigans need to end, and I will tell you why. As our contributor writer Dudebrabroman pointed out in Going Viral Doesn’t Cure Viruses, the ALS Ice…
Just raise our taxes. That’s the takeaway I arrive at more and more as I read about the various fuckeries of our nations police forces. Increasingly law enforcement is being used as a de facto fund raising mechanism for our nations various levels of government. It’s part of the reason why the war on drugs,…
Roger Goodell needs to be fired, because hey, why not? Here’s a list of things we can argue about: Is Ray Rice a bad guy or just made one mistake? Doe Janay Rice deserve for us to stop talking about this? Does the NFL have a bigger responsibility than the law? Is a hotdog a…
Sadly, “Journalism Isn’t For Journalists” will be a reoccurring segment on this site. This week, The Huffington Post is the latest media outlet to give a huge “FUCK YOU!” to journalists everywhere. HuffPost has hired former NFL wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth as their newest politics fellow. Not a sports writer. Not a health and nutrition…
We probably don’t need awareness for the sort of cause you’d want to raise awareness for. We don’t, and even if we did, most people suck at spreading useful awareness.We know breast cancer exists, we know mental health is a thing, we are all aware that ALS exists. We probably do not need the sort…
Why white people are so angry about everything black. For those of you who listen to the podcast, you’ve probably heard us talk about Crazy Facebook Republican Militia Guy before. This person is exactly who you’d think he would be: white, ex-military, angry, hates Obama more than life itself, loves guns more than he…
