tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:23:25 +0000PoliticsMoviesHumorBad Movie Endurance TestComicsMusicBooksForteanaInternetsSlacktivismPeopleTVscience fictionsocial mediaOMFdiscordianismFree Speechows#BLM#BaltimoreUprisingBeyonceBluesmenBrainfartFake NewsHalloweenLunaticsMuppetsPrimariesSuperbowlhistoryA blog about politics, pop culture, and forteana.http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)Blogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-3400767820819358050Sat, 13 Apr 2019 17:31:00 +00002019-04-13T12:31:07.239-05:00It's been a while since I posted a review, but I couldn't pass up Terry Gilliam's new film. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2019/04/movie-review-man-who-killed-don-quixote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-849497151416694673Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:03:00 +00002017-11-23T09:05:06.001-06:00Movies Here's my review of Justice League! http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2017/11/movie-review-justice-league.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-7606412313323175146Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:24:00 +00002017-01-29T18:24:32.010-06:00Moviesscience fictionHere's my review of the new Resident Evil movie. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2017/01/movie-review-resident-evil-please-make.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-6806585312595602597Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:52:00 +00002016-12-25T19:05:02.373-06:00Fake NewsInternetsPolitics There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about fake news lately, with lots of people advocating that social media sites and other information venues do something to protect stupid people from themselves, whether by banning fake news sites outright or instituting some kind of warning system to identify clickbait, satire, and hyper-partisan sources. Nearly all of the suggested solutions focus http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/12/fake-news-grant-kills-bigfoot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-3788716742381861278Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:26:00 +00002016-11-07T20:30:45.971-06:00MoviesA few days ago I started a series of posts to Facebook about how excited I was about the upcoming election because it's extremely important (maybe THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER '16) because of the stark policy differences between the two major parties. Somebody suggested I collect them all in one place, so here they are (in reverse order). Since you've probably already got the song "I Can't http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-cant-wait.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-230724263667150112Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:36:00 +00002016-11-06T15:47:49.984-06:00PoliticsI kind of dropped the ball on this series because life, so since the election is just a couple of days away, I'm going to skip the details on the last 20 or so states. If you want to check the historical trends for your state, 270towin.com provides it in an easy-to-understand format. Fivethirtyeight.com is a god place to go for poll numbers and projections. Light Red & Light Blue http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-vote-counts-part-6-states-where-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-5025535860363031180Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:38:00 +00002016-09-26T12:38:51.214-05:00PoliticsToday Vox posted some Bingo cards to use with tonight's debate, but their cards are reasonably fair, so I modified one of their cards that you can give to your opponent to rig the game in your favor just like the two major parties have done. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/09/debate-bingo-cheater-card.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-6924514732636431928Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:14:00 +00002016-09-01T16:22:03.954-05:00PoliticsThe states from the last two installments are beyond solid. Most of them have historically gone to the same party except in unusual circumstances like the party realignments during the Civil Rights Era, the Reagan Revolution, or the elections where there was a third-party candidate who actually got enough votes to play the spoiler. This time around, we'll look at the states that are solidly but http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/09/my-vote-counts-part-5-solid-states.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-3570687015938476929Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:09:00 +00002016-08-30T19:09:23.173-05:00MoviesJust posted my Suicide Squad review on the kingyak site. You should read it and save yourself $8. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/08/suicide-squad-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-8567617042275865739Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:23:00 +00002016-08-25T16:23:24.903-05:00Politics A couple weeks ago, I went through the states that are extremely unlikely to go Red this year without some kind of major Democratic Party defection. I was planning to go through the states that are almost certainly going to the GOP last week, but didn't get around to it because I was working on my new book of movie reviews (which you can buy here!), so I'm doing it now. Below I'll go through http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-vote-counts-part-4-really-red-states.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-1170614765844259923Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:48:00 +00002016-08-11T15:05:27.473-05:00PoliticsThird parties probably won't play a big role in the election this year. Gary Johnson only took 1% of the vote in 2012 and is polling at an average of 9%. Jill Stein only took 0.36% of the vote in 2012 and isn't on the ballot in all 50 states and therefore isn't even included in most polls. Even if you give her the same increase from 2012 voting to current polls that Johnson is showing, she's in http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-vote-counts-part-3-true-blue-states_70.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-8395735622598986676Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:25:00 +00002016-08-03T20:44:07.985-05:00PoliticsI was going to save discussion of spoilers until later, but I probably need to get into it before we get into state-by-state voting patterns so we can come up with some sample scenarios for gauging how likely it is third party spoiler is going to flip a state and bring about the end of life on this planet that will inevitably result from the election of the Greater Evil (whichever one of them http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-vote-counts-part-2-spoilers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-3108904085297271657Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:23:00 +00002016-08-02T19:39:45.428-05:00PoliticsAs I said last time, voting for the lesser evil can actually make sense in an election decided by the popular vote or even the U.S. Presidential election if you live in a state that could go either way. To understand why it's unlikely that solid states are going to suddenly go to the other candidate, imagine you live in a state where 100 people normally vote. We'll call it Centuria. Unless it http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-vote-counts-part-1-game-changers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-1970633460774180501Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:52:00 +00002016-07-28T19:19:28.662-05:00PoliticsEvery election cycle, a lot of people try to convince me to vote for the lesser of two evils. In most cases, they greatly exaggerate the "lesser" aspect of the candidate they're stumping for and the "evil" aspect of the other side. Even if I completely believed that one of the two neo-liberal warhawks we've been forced to choose between for as long as I've been old enough to vote was truly the http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/07/my-vote-counts-lesser-evils-and-other.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-9108134199326085529Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:27:00 +00002016-07-26T19:27:53.157-05:00MoviesHere's my review of Ghostbusters. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/07/review-ghostbusters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-9127693059070019076Sun, 24 Jul 2016 21:12:00 +00002016-07-24T16:12:42.825-05:00science fictionTVRead it here. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/07/review-stranger-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-8222526938208396476Tue, 12 Jul 2016 02:35:00 +00002016-07-11T21:35:17.574-05:00MoviesRead my review of The Legend of Tarzan on my site. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/07/movie-review-legend-of-tarzan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-1181144335713566835Fri, 01 Jul 2016 01:24:00 +00002016-06-30T20:24:45.295-05:00Moviesscience fictionMy review of the new Independence Day movie is on my website. Go read it. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/06/independence-day-re-something.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-469063592196001265Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:26:00 +00002016-04-05T19:26:01.060-05:00MoviesMusicClick here to read my review of I Saw The Light at kingyak.com.  http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/04/movie-review-i-saw-light.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-1499488992270557386Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:43:00 +00002016-03-29T16:43:00.659-05:00ComicsMoviesClick here for my review of Batman V Superman: Curse of the Black Pearl.  http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/03/batman-v-superman-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-9031575043258773314Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:22:00 +00002016-03-13T16:22:07.414-05:00HumorTVI saw a story in my Facebook sidebar about Ariana Grande saying "shit" on SNL and thought "are we turning into South Park?" That led to this:  http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/03/america-according-to-south-park.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-5039016393272520756Fri, 11 Mar 2016 04:05:00 +00002016-03-10T22:05:13.462-06:00MoviesJust posted a review of The Witch at kingyak.com. http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/03/review-witch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-3291177531871788934Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:54:00 +00002016-03-04T17:54:56.555-06:00InternetsMoviesPoliticsI don't have time to write a couple thousand words on this right now, so I'm just going to do 3 bullet points:  In the movie Idiocracy, the "villains" are not people who are stupid because of genetics or class or poverty. They are people who revel in their own ignorance and reject intellectualism. It's unfortunate that Judge chose the rural poor to represent these people, but to be fair, http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/03/quick-post-about-idiocracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-2991588682930705657Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:16:00 +00002016-02-10T19:46:39.194-06:00PoliticsPrimariesToday my feed is full of stories about the DNC "awarding superdelegates" to Hillary Clinton. All the headlines suggest that something shady's going on, and all the links go to clickbait websites masquerading as lefty news outlets (USUncut, AddictingInfo, and similar sites). I'm the first to admit that by all appearances the DNC is manipulating the primary race in Hillary Clinton's favor. However,http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/02/lets-talk-about-superdelegates-and-stop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842714504886198226.post-4237391939937019824Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:25:00 +00002016-02-08T18:37:27.305-06:00#BLMBeyoncePoliticsSuperbowlSo apparently this is going on in response to something that happened at a football game: If Beyonce (or the Black Lives Matter movement) were saying that the problem with the police is that they're incompetent dullards who are so racist that they instantly shoot every minority they encounter, this may be a valid criticism. Of course, Beyonce hasn't said that. She's expressed concern that http://goatheadgumbo.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-it-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Johnson)0