The My-Stery: Invisibility and Anti-Matter at the RNC

Watching veteran actor Clint Eastwood’s “act” with an invisible President Obama in a chair may have been the highlight of the Republican National Convention, but as several commentators have mentioned, it ironically represented the Republican platform and treatment of Obama in this election. Through their words and actions, this is what I have heard from […]

Otherworldly Videos: White House, Black President

With the next presidential election only a few months away, let us look back on the symbolism of a black president through speculative film and think about the new considerations we must think about now that we have one. In a 1961 speech at the Liberation Committee for Africa, James Baldwin offered a critical response […]

President Obama as an Alien

Washington Post writer, E.J. Dionne Jr., wrote a piece about the ridiculous disrespect of Barack Obama as president: “They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he’s a Nazi, but on most others he’s merely a socialist. His especially […]