James Swift

…and you should, too.

Today, I would like to pay tribute to ten of the most terrifying films ever made that, for all intents and purposes, weren’t explicitly designed to scare you senseless.

“You don’t want to go to your grave not knowing what it’s like to make out with a girl wearing midnight black lipstick, do you? Aye, such would be a fate grimmer than death herself.”

The great residual effect of 9/11, if you aren’t old enough to vote or buy cigarettes at the moment? “Murica.” Yes, that’s what 9/11 means to today’s kids. Not terror. Not tragedy. Not the loss of safety. It means “that weird point in time before social media where everybody liked Chuck Norris.”

Recalling a dozen or so instances wherein the “most accountable” newsmen in the world lied like rugs.

“In the pantheon of crude, ethnoracial stereotypes, the “redneck” is perhaps the last acceptable target for wide-scale derision. “

The problem isn’t the dating pool. It’s you.

There isn’t a more misogynistic, racist or homophobic program on television … so why is the long-running ABC reality program still so popular after 14 years?

Never say “I love you” unless you mean it …

Why the abrasive, anonymous nature of platforms like YouTube and Reddit may have grave – and very real – consequences for the “always online” generation.

I think most students walk out of college more narrow-minded than when they walked in. They exit college being more codependent thinkers than independent thinkers.

More than anything else, the US media itself is at fault for such instances of mass carnage.