Daily Link Dump - June 20, 2012

The Most Transparent Administration in History™ continues to go about doing typically corrupt presidential things. This is also a reminder of the power of the new media. This was a story that was pursued mainly by bloggers online, with only CBS as the only legacy media that showed the slightest interest in this. 


OUTRAGE: Apparently shackles can only be seen as a symbol of the African slave trade.


OUTRAGE: Some folk are still all butthurt over a prosthetic Dubya head on a spike in Game of Thrones and seriously want the Secret Service to investigate. Because they investigated Ted Nugent, and if they are going to waste time on that, they need to waste time on this. Two wrongs make a right when it comes to team politics.


Kristen Stewart was the highest paid actress in Hollywood last year.


The quintessential first-world problem.

Paul Verhoeven is teaming up with Roger Avary to create an exceptionally controversial movie in a obviously transparent attempt to revive their careers. Verhoeven hasn't made a good film since 1997 and, other than those directed by Tarantino or Zemeckis, Avary hasn't been attached to a good film in his entire career.

Reappraising Girls now that the whole first season has aired. This has me thinking about giving the show another chance. I found the tone extremely off-putting and sympathetic towards characters that deserve none from me. The Seinfeld comparison is one I made to another friend some time ago. The joke was always on George, Jerry, Elaine or Kramer and the show never coddled them afterward. Girls, however, from what I saw, did and that never sat right with me. But Seitz's analysis has me intrigued and willing to try again at some point.

Oh, hey, look. That war on cops nonsense keeps being proved to be just that.

I'm just gonna leave this here: