Stop the Tyranny of Facts. Check Your Privilege, & Stop Violating my Intuitions
As I just commented to some friends on Facebook about this HORRIBLE article… We have to do something about the plague of #altliterarycritique! We truly are in a post-Derridean age, where arbitrary social constructs just don’t matter any more, and…
Demagoonery
If demagoguery plays to our prejudices and fears, then demagoonery adds our gullibility and a dearth of honest information to the mix. Here’s an example: During Obama’s second term the stock market did a little 50 point dipsy doodle. One…
NASA Continues Search for Planets Where Government More Favorable to Funding Space Exploration
A panel of experts unveiled seven earth-sized planets only 235,145,014,927,344 miles from Earth (where we live), three of which may posses the proper conditions for Pokemon. This is only the latest milestone in an ongoing search to identify alien governments…
Tony Blair Orders French Citizens not to Vote for Marine Le Pen
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is appalled at the recent EU referendum decision in the UK; as well as his failed attempts to prevent Corbyn becoming, and indeed remaining, Labour leader. A rather flustered press conference has given him…
Fighting Hate with Hate
I recently got a bad headache and had to lie down. It snuck up on me while I was researching the word fascist. The reason for my interest in fascism was Yvette Felarca. She’s a special kind of crazy. People…
New MIT lab wants to cure autism
In the occasionally some news is good news department, Gadfly is happy to report that there’s a new kid on the block, a new lab at MIT started with a private donation, that has expressed a desire to find a…
Hair, the Rock Musical That Shook The World.
It was almost 50 years ago that the rock opera ‘Hair’ first appeared on the scene in New York, just preceding the famous ‘Summer of Love’ of 1968. Having humble beginnings, it played first in a disco way off Broadway,…
“Inappropriate,” the Power Elite’s Ubiquitous Euphemism!
Dateline: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Experts discover that American politicians, pundits, and journalists frequently say “That’s not appropriate” when they really mean, “I want to tear out your intestines and strangle you with them for doing that.” Leslie Montague, psychologist at Pick Your…
One Day Without Us: Letting Migrants Stay is NOT ‘Idealistic’ or ‘Sentimental’
Glossy News is a non-partisan satire site. But even a co-editor is entitled to express one’s view on divisive issues, once in a while. I’m going down soon to the ‘One Day Without Us’ event in Leeds. Make sure you…
How Fake News is Made (Plus Who, Why and How!)
In the 2016 election season, Fake News websites sprung up quickly and in shocking numbers. Many believed their lies and voted based on them, but what IS fake news and how does it work? How propagan-do??? Making headlines is hard,…