Timothy Sexton
Articles by Timothy Sexton
September 22, 2008
It is probably too late to avoid getting a third Bush term in the White House, but at least we can make sure Nancy Pelosi is no longer there to compound the damage.
August 03, 2008
This article contains information that has not been confirmed by a second source, as such it should be treated with a certain amount of skepticism.
February 22, 2008
The Principal of Brown Barge Middle School in Pensacola, FL. goes inexplicably ballistic during a parent conference after she was politely asked to not interrupt me. The valid question is whether this woman is mentally stable enough to hold such an important role in the community.
December 29, 2007
Are you old enough to remember the first time the New England Patriots* cheated to win a football game? It was during a game with the Miami Dolphins back in the 80s. The Patriots were attempting a field goal when the groundskeeper rode onto the field to scoop away the snow in front of the placekic...
December 02, 2007
1939 is generally regarded as the greatest year ever for the movies. Why? Well, just take a look at this partial list and see how many have wound up on one or another list of the 100 greatest movies of all time:
Beau Geste
Destry Rides Again
Gunga Din
Dodge City
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Inter...
September 26, 2007
America is in the midst of a crisis that is unprecedented in its history. Never before in the almost 220 years that America has had a President and a Congress has there ever been a situation such as we face now. Never before has a President who has lost the confidence of over 60% of the people and...
September 13, 2007
THESE are, again, the times that try men's souls. Over 230 years ago a grand, if imperfect, experiment was attempted. The experiment was designed to give the people the right to choose their leaders and, by extension, the destiny of their nation. Yes, by the “people” the architects of America init...
August 15, 2007
Do you remember where you were on the afternoon of August 16, 1977? I do. I was lying on the couch in my parents’ house watching a rerun of Gilligan’s Island on the superstation, WTCG. (This was about a month before Ted Turner got the rights to TBS so that his planned superstation would rhyme wit...
July 24, 2007
Former Saturday Night Live star and multi-character voiceover actor for The Simpsons, Jon Lovitz, is engaged in a real-life feud with bizarre comedian Andy Dick. The feud is more intense than merely exchanging Shakespearean insults: Lovitz and Dick reportedly came to blows inside a comedy club in L...
July 22, 2007
You know the old saying, right? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Well, nobody with a half a brain believes that so it’s not surprising that George W. Bush, born without a brain, believes it. As a result he is fully supportive of the latest initiative to find someone in the world who supports...
July 15, 2007
I have previously written an article that guides writers and students to Shvoong.com. Shvoong is a site where you can make a little bit of spending money by writing abstracts and summaries of pretty much anything-from poems to entire web sites. It is one of the premier sites on the internet for diss...
July 06, 2007
Remember how The Decider firmly stood up and said he would take action when the Berlin Wall set up inside the White House to keep truth from escaping developed a crack just large enough for a tiny bit of reality to seep through and reveal that someone in the White House had been the source of the le...
July 05, 2007
Well, at least he didn´t have the arrogance to do it on the 4th of July. Just two days shy of the day on which Americans celebrate their independence from a government in which one man must answer to nobody, Pres. Bush pissed on not only the Constitution, but the very idea of America. If you are a...
July 03, 2007
Pres. George W. Bush did not, as was widely expected by any but the most gullible of Americans, actually pardon Scooter Libby. Instead, showing the dickless cowardice that has been the hallmark of this loser since getting granddaddy to help him out putting his convictions on the line in the jungles...
June 29, 2007
To judge from the coverage given Paris Hilton’s exalted and overhyped exit from the Los Angeles penal system one would think that, surely, the vast majority of Americans nearly obsessive in their undying fascination with this non-story. Paris Hilton’s correctional facilities debut—and is there anyo...
June 28, 2007
I’ve always considered those who call themselves pro-life but then are willing to make exceptions in cases of incest or rape to be far more reprehensible that even the radical, though non-violent, pro-lifers who want to outlaw abortion in all cases. After all, isn’t making those exceptions the sam...
June 27, 2007
Okay, as I write this the date is June 27th, 2007. In exactly one month The Simpsons Movie hits theaters. Just one month away. And yet when I go to Target or Walmart or Toys R Us do I see any merchandise related to The Simpsons Movie? I have yet to see a toy or even a T-shirt related the movie...
June 22, 2007
Thank God for Netflix yet again! A-Ha! Without the good folks at Netflix understanding that some Americans actually prefer to watch intelligently scripted comedy instead of haphazardly scripted “reality” I might never have—finally—discovered that gem of British comedy known as Alan Partridge. I ha...
June 22, 2007
I recently published an article suggesting that the shark swimming around Netflix—Blockbuster Video—might be defeated in the form of Netflix entering into contracts with locally owned and operated video stores of the kind that used to populate every neighborhood in America before Blockbuster moved i...
Mitt Romney Proves He is Unqualified to Be President by Demonstrating a Frightening Lack of Knowlege
June 11, 2007
“If Saddam Hussein had opened up his country to IAEA inspectors, and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction...we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in."
Those were the words of Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, and currently campaigning for th...
June 11, 2007
Such is the lust for the White House shared by the Democrats in Congress that they find it perfectly acceptable to give in to the delusional demands of a lame duck President with no more political cache than a cross-dressing homosexual Republican Congressman from San Francisco. While Nancy Pelosi an...
June 10, 2007
I have made no secret of my belief that the American mainstream media no longer has any credibility. In fact, I have written a few articles defending Associated Content’s credibility by comparing it to the so-called reliable news organizations like the 24 hour cable news channels and such respected...
June 08, 2007
Osama is a commanding piece of cinematic brilliance that divulges the true revulsion of oppression that regularly took place in Afghanistan at the height of Taliban rule. For those who weren’t paying attention until 9/11, the Taliban was fundamentalist Muslim theocracy where women we invested with ...
June 04, 2007
All of us who insist that the administration currently occupying the White House (and isn't that a particulary apt description) headed by Pres. Bush cannot learn from past mistakes must offer a mea culpa. While the fact seems eminently clear that the desire to dive into history books is not at the t...
May 13, 2007
I’m not a MySpace junkie who spends all day looking to meet new and interesting people to kill. (Little Vietnam-era joke there.) I have a MySpace page, but I’m rather stingy about accepting friends. I like the friends on my MySpace page to be either genuine friends, Associated Content writers, or...
April 23, 2007
As has been pointed out by me as well as thousands of others, Katie Couric just isn't making it as the CBS Evening News anchor. Many of us had little doubt that Katie Couric wasn't up to the job, and she has come through with flying colors. Her ratings spiked in the first week and have been consiste...
April 23, 2007
At last I have figured out why American Idol is such a modest success. (Though it is treated as if it receives record breaking ratings, in fact American Idol regularly is seen by only about three to five million more viewers than Murder She Wrote at the peak of that show's success. I don't remember ...
April 23, 2007
One of the greatest reasons to get a Netflix subscription is to gain access to their catalog of documentaries. Not only does Netflix carry the must-see PBS Frontline documentary on Dick Cheney's plan to engage in a coup of the American political system titled The Dark Side, but they carry documentar...
April 22, 2007
Absolutely nobody predicted at the time that Hannibal Lecter was destined to become a tragic figure when he initially stepped onto the cultural landscape in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Even after achieving widespread exposure through his translation into a film character, few could have guessed...
April 22, 2007
The concept album is probably a thing of the past, what with the rise of internet downloading of songs you like in the order you like rather than albums where the songs are in a particular order. It is generally agreed that The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper was the first rock concept album. Pink Floyd is the...
April 22, 2007
Genre theory exists as a form of literary criticism primarily for its usefulness in creating a form of taxonomy by which literary works can be easily divided. In one sense genre theory may be seen as an attempt to apply a certain scientific method to dividing works of literature along lines much in ...
April 11, 2007
Pres Bush: As you knew when you applied for the job of President of the United States, it is just a temporary position. After eight years you will be required to move on. Since you are nearing the end of that time period, we believe it is in your best interest to begin considering what plans you m...
April 09, 2007
In his landmark work "The Importance of Play" Bruno Bettelheim lays out a penetrating study that attempts to describe the psychological importance that play has upon the development of the mind of young children. Bettelheim proceeds from the perspective of classic Freudian psychology with the sugges...
April 08, 2007
Did you hear the latest example of Don Imus’ utter lack of social graces? First the dude wears a cowboy hat around like he’s freaking John Wayne—or, I guess Gene Wilder from Blazing Saddles would be more appropriate—and then he somehow manages to wrangle a job on talk radio despite being less coher...
April 04, 2007
An odd question has been popping up lately on the network news channels and discussion shows. Is Barack Obama qualified to become President considering he is only a one term Senator. Let’s take a page out of the Republican playbook, shall we? We’ll answer the question about Obama’s fitness to bec...
February 17, 2007
Homer Simpson: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are
saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa Simpson: No.
Homer Simpson: Ham?
Lisa Simpson: No.
Homer Simpson: Pork chops?
Lisa Simpson: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer Si...
February 17, 2007
The opening decade of the 21st century will stand as one in which Moby-Dick not only seems achingly contemporary, but also eerily prescient. In these times Moby-Dick presents a reply of sorts to Plato's fears about reality being distorted through fictional representation. Ahab and his psychotic purs...
February 17, 2007
If one can describe the state of politics in the United States as encompassing one single theme, it would be theme of government intervention into the lives of its citizens. The debate has raged since the fiery genesis of this great experiment in self-government, it has been defined as the engine th...
February 13, 2007
Critical thought informed by analysis of historical precedent presents the greatest threat to any endeavor aimed at the enforcement of an authoritarian government. The very fact that so many Americans have warned against the excesses of the Bush administration for so long is proof that a situation a...
February 12, 2007
Every once in a while a movie comes along that manages to completely slip under the radar despite having big name stars. Many times these movies are lower-budgeted, independent-minded, low-on-action movies that attracted the big stars precisely because they were an opportunity to show off acting ch...
February 12, 2007
Absolutely nobody predicted at the time that Hannibal Lecter was destined to become a tragic figure when he initially stepped onto the cultural landscape in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Even after achieving widespread exposure through his translation into a film character, few could have guessed...
February 12, 2007
St. Valentine’s Day approacheth and while I intend to purchase for my wife an appropriate romantic offering, I also thought I would take a moment to express to the entire world—or at least that portion that reads my work here—how empty my life would be if I’d never met the woman who became my bride....
February 07, 2007
Doesn’t matter whether you are a bigger fan of baseball or Abbott & Costello, have I got the perfect gift for your baseball fan. Baseball season is fast approaching, don’t you know, and while everyone else shows up at the ballpark wearing their boring old team jersey with the name and number of the...
January 31, 2007
Shvoong.com is a terrific resource for students, researchers, or anyone else interested in quick capsule summaries of books, web sites, journals, magazines, movies and newspapers. Advertising themselves as the place for abstracts, they are probably one of the most honest research-oriented web sites ...
January 31, 2007
Does anybody remember Mark Kostabi? If you were interested in the art scene or even just pop culture during the 1980s, chances are you heard of this artist. In fact, he was probably the second most controversial artist of the 1980s, right up there behind the infamous Robert Mapplethorpe and his stun...
January 31, 2007
Some movies just can't be adequately critiqued without invoking their politics. The fact that Elia Kazan made On The Waterfront in the first place makes it fair game for reviewing the film from the point of view of a political statement. The movie is a counter to the indictment against people like ...
January 31, 2007
If you missed the PBS Frontline documentary "The Dark Side" you can catch catch it either on PBS.org or, even better, you can Netflix it. “The Dark Side” features interviews with several top level intelligence officials that go a long way toward proving that Dick Cheney was the driving force behind...
January 31, 2007
On their second album Solid Gold, the postpunk rock group Gang of Four openly assert their intention to approach pop music as critical theory with a song titled, appropriately enough, "Why Theory?" In answer to their own query of why critical theory should have a place in rock music, the band sings ...
January 30, 2007
Ancient Greek philosophers rarely enter the discourse when the subject turns to reality TV, but Plato’s most famous and influential literary accomplishments does have a place in the commentary. Since Plato warned in The Republic that imitative poetry is potentially a devastating danger to society ...
January 30, 2007
America: Love it or leave it. How many times have you heard those words spoken or that thought expressed in other ways? If you have the opinions I have and you live in the kind of political climate in which I live, probably a lot. True story: I put up a profile on Classmates.com a while back, ju...
January 30, 2007
I know Hezbollah does bad things. I know I’m supposed to call them bad guys. I know I will be called names by suggesting that they are capable of doing anything even remotely good. I also know that Israel kills civilians. The US kills civilians. So I won’t call Hezbollah the bad guys. Nor will...
January 29, 2007
The Matamoros Children’s Home needs your help. In these times of bursting populations, rampant drug use and tight finances, the children of the world are facing tough times. If you get a big tax return this year and look around at your Playstation 3 and your enormous big screen plasma TV, and you...
January 29, 2007
It is a sad commentary on the state of the art of the film in the 21st century and the precipitous drop in quality over the last decade that the best film I watched for the first time in 2006 actually came out forty years ago. The film is The Battle of Algiers and it tells the story of the Algerian...
January 27, 2007
I haven’t seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette yet, but I was immediately intrigued the first time I saw the trailer because she used the song “Age of Consent” by my favorite band, New Order. I then found out that the film actually opens with my second favorite song of all time, “Natural’s Not In ...
January 27, 2007
It may be the ultimate political irony in American history that much of Ronald Reagan’s success as a President was acting as if everything was going along just fine, and that the only thing in the world Americans had to fear was communist aggression. It wasn’t true, of course; in fact, many America...