Don Hall 12/11/19 Don Hall 12/11/19

Jesus Would Kick Santa’s Ass

This debate is about who represents the holiday we know as Christmas the best. For this purpose, I see both figures more like Marvel X-Men than real life creatures, so come with me on the comparison train!

Don Hall 12/9/19 Don Hall 12/9/19

I Believe… [The Difference Between ‘Normal’ and ‘Ordinary’]

I believe… that cisgender is not a synonym for normal but a synonym for ordinary. Thus, those outside of the ordinary are naturally extraordinary rather than abnormal. Reframe things and we all win.

Don Hall 12/2/19 Don Hall 12/2/19

I Believe… [Chaos Is Less Fun Than Revolution]

…that those who seek revolution would be wise to have some sort of vision of what will take the place of the system destroyed. Without that vision, the house burns down and chaos reigns. Sounds good until you have to face chaos.

Don Hall 11/27/19 Don Hall 11/27/19

You Know You Love White People Shit

You love Guy Fieri. You love Shark Tank. You love Nora Ephron. You love 5Ks. You love The Crown.

Don Hall 11/26/19 Don Hall 11/26/19

They’re Getting Rid of Time Out Rooms and Now There is No Legal Consequence for Dealing with Disruptive or Violent Students

I’m a bona fide Leftie with all my liberal merit badges but even I am aghast for teachers today. Without even the possibility of removing students from a room full of kids to calm them down or punish them with a bit of isolation from the very attention they so desperately crave, educators are fucked.

Don Hall 11/25/19 Don Hall 11/25/19

I Believe… [The Great Human Leveler]

…that without regard for political ideology, activist dogma, religious belief or sexual identity, we are all leveled human by the flu.

Don Hall 11/23/19 Don Hall 11/23/19

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah: How to Square the Circle of Disney’s Past With Today’s Need For Revisionist Cleansing

“It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”

Don Hall 11/19/19 Don Hall 11/19/19

Eat the Best Parts, Discard the Rest

I am not a Native American person.

I mean, I can’t say that I know any and I have to assume that modern Native Americans are no longer much like those from Dances with Wolves but my perception of those hunters and gatherers of the pre-colonized North America is that they were truly ecological in their approach. Kill the deer and eat or use all the parts as a sign of respect and a noncommerce-based frugality. Utilize the entire buffalo to be seen as a virtuous steward of nature because it’s okay to kill the animal as long as you use the shit out of the last sinew and bone.

I respect that concept and when it comes to ideas, I used to be that guy who found a new, shiny worldview or ideology and, if I discovered things I liked about it, took the whole load down my throat and proselytized it as all zealots do.

Don Hall 11/18/19 Don Hall 11/18/19

I Believe... [No New Pants]

…that I no longer care so much about my diet or exercise so much as I just don’t want to have to buy new pants.

Don Hall 11/11/19 Don Hall 11/11/19

I Believe… [Fostering Change Isn’t a Demand]

…that you can inspire someone to change. You can educate someone toward change. You can support someone as they change. You cannot make someone change, and all your efforts to do so, being met with failure, are the cause of your great outrage.

Don Hall 11/10/19 Don Hall 11/10/19

I Like To Watch | Yesterday (2019)

At the end, however, it is all about the songs. And, oh, what extraordinary songs they are.

Don Hall 11/6/19 Don Hall 11/6/19

Validation by Exaggerating Harm is Straight Out of the Propagandist Playbook

Take Donald Trump for example. His language choices are intentionally hyperbolic. He routinely elevates perceived enemies into traitors to the State and rants on and on about witch hunts and lynchings. The Left takes the bait and wastes time arguing the semantics of his grievances (“Witch Hunts are against women!”) and the Right buys into the faux seriousness of them and responds in outrage.

It doesn’t help that the Left elevates his discourse as assault and his rhetoric as violence. These concepts are simply ridiculous and even the dumbest of his supporters can see that.

Don Hall 11/4/19 Don Hall 11/4/19

I Believe… [Basic, Average White Guy]

…that when people tell you you look like Al Franken, Brad Pitt, Tim Allen, John Ham’s drunk cousin, and John Wick (Keanu Reeves), it is established fact that you are the most basic, average looking white guy on the Strip.

Don Hall 11/2/19 Don Hall 11/2/19

Problematic Movies of the '80s | "Amazon Women on the Moon" (1987)

To be frank, I don’t remember much about this movie with the exception that I remember thinking it was hysterical. I vaguely recall some racial humor and David Allen Grier as a black guy who sings like a white guy. I’m pretty sure there’s gratuitous boobs and, going into this one, I’d bet a hefty sum that it has a laundry list of problematic elements.

Don Hall 10/28/19 Don Hall 10/28/19

I Believe… [Political Misspelling is Dumb]

…that when I see you spell women “womxn “ and folks “folx” and white “yt,” wyte,” or “vvhite” your overwhelming virtue signaling blares so loudly that I simply can’t hear you for the noise. You’re only communicating to your trybe.

Don Hall 10/27/19 Don Hall 10/27/19

I Like to Watch | Winnebago Man

Fame is its own aphrodisiac. With the internet, fame is much easier to attain which makes its acquisition of far less value. When anyone can become notoriously known by putting up a video of them doing something stupid and perhaps painful, the bar is set for fewer and fewer influencers to have any real influence.

Don Hall 10/26/19 Don Hall 10/26/19

Problematic Movies of the 80s | Stripes (1981)

Oh man. Stripes is a relative stew of problematic elements, simmering without malice but just as tasty when the ingredients are sussed out.

Don Hall 10/21/19 Don Hall 10/21/19

I Believe... [Insurance is Only an Entry Fee]

…that insurance is no more than the membership fee for entering a doctor’s office. It is not actually insurance against catastrophe but a payment to be allowed in the room.

Don Hall 10/20/19 Don Hall 10/20/19

The Destructiveness of Deprivation and Want

In 1974, I used to troll around my Arizona neighborhood and beat up Cub Scouts regularly.

Don Hall 10/14/19 Don Hall 10/14/19

I Believe... [Baby Boomers With a Christian Bale Growl]

…that nothing is more true about the Baby Boomer generation than the truth about The Dark Knight: “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Remember that Batman was always the hero.