The Most Significant Commercials from Super Bowl LV

June 3, 2021

In the longest running feature on site, I have analyzed the commercials for every Super Bowl for the past several years, and I’m back again for the 2021 edition. But the results of this year’s analysis has me wondering if I’ll be back again in 2022 for Super Bowl LVI. I may be getting ahead of myself a little, though, so let’s get down to basisc. Every year I start…

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Quick Take: We Need to Stop Saying This

May 28, 2021

I am currently job hunting pretty hard, which means I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, checking in at least daily, most of the time, to see what is new and looking for opportunities. On my most recent visit, I saw the above post as a recommended article. And being generally interested in politics, I clicked through for a read. It got me thinking, and that’s a good thing….

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Hail to the Muscogee

The Washington Football Team franchise logo
September 10, 2020

I Grew Up Loving the Sport of Gridiron As a native of Washington D.C., born in the city and raised in its suburbs, I was lullabied in fight songs about victory and swaddled in burgundy and gold. The then-named Redskins won a Super Bowl shortly before I was born, and then the team won two more in my formative years, including a performance against the Denver Broncos in January of…

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Six Months into a Pandemic

Promotional graphic for the movie Tenet
September 6, 2020

The Modern Movie Problem The proliferation of SARS-CoV-2 and the pandemic that has caused are the story of 2020. Everything else is just a piece of that tapestry. How the pandemic has affected our work and economy, our political system, and our day-to-day lives is something so profound that it takes up all of the oxygen from the environment. Since the discovery of the disease my life, like everyone else’s…

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Joe Biden Cannot Be Allowed To Be President of the United States of America

Joe Biden hugging an uncomfortable looking young woman
March 9, 2020

A Joe Biden presidency would be very bad for the United States without doing anything significant to ameliorate the perceived problems of the current administration. Yes, Joe Biden is a much nicer person than Donald Trump, but at the end of the day, this is about what politicians do, not what kind of people they are. Donald Trump’s flaws are significant and should, and in better times, likely would disqualify…

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Super Bowl LIV – The Most Significant Commercials

February 3, 2020

2020 marks the fourth anniversary of my Super Bowl commercial recap blog post here at Rampant Discourse. With four years down, we’ve rotated around through all of the hosting channels, NBC, ABC and for both 2020 and 2017, FOX. Having run this blog for a number of years now, I’ve gotten familiar with the trends. Every year has its own trends, but the generic trends of Super Bowl ads on…

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The Necessity of Christ in A Christmas Carol

December 25, 2019

A Christmas Carol might be Charles Dickens’ most long-lasting work, despite being one of his shortest.  There are those who still read and enjoy his other works, such as Oliver Twist, which again regains modern legs with a musical rendition; or David Copperfield, who at least lends his name to someone moderately famous in the modern time.  Dickens’ classics are still frequently read, but most typically only among the well-educated. …

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What We Once Were … What We Might Have Been

June 10, 2019

I recently turned 38. That isn’t particularly remarkable in itself, but for some reason this number and the approach to it, have left me having more of a midlife crisis than I would ever have thought possible for myself. Now, this is still far from a “Homer Simpson-style” midlife panic, but it has led to some serious introspection. And given that I am already prone to serious introspection on the…

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Why I Am Giving Up on Amazon’s Shipping

March 21, 2019

I chose to pre-order my latest video game fascination, Kingdom Hearts III, from Amazon. Like most games these days, there were competing pre-order bonuses from various retailers, and the Amazon bonus wasn’t that impressive, but I had no real desire for any of the others, either. So I chose the convenience of direct shipping to my house on release day, price match guarantee, and free shipping thanks to my Prime…

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Kingdom Hearts III Was Worth the Wait

March 19, 2019

It is incredibly hard for a game as long-delayed and as much-hyped as Kingdom Hearts III to satisfy its fans. When Microsoft delayed and scaled back and delayed again Crackdown 3, it was obvious that the project was in trouble. And though the game has its fans, the general consensus has been, “Meh” at best. There is a kind of resigned sigh that goes through fans of games and series…

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