Opinionistas

Opinionistas

Opinionistas bills itself as "a continuous observation of the ridiculousness of human behavior." Many of the posts are about law-firm life. Categories on the site include "self-indulgent, semi-lucid thoughts" and "firm absurdity."

Author: Author Melissa Lafsky is a nonpracticing attorney living in downtown Manhattan. She was an associate editor at The Huffington Post and is now editor for freakonomics.com.

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Recent Posts from Opinionistas


  • Say Hello to the New Film Genre: The Unintentional Horror Movie

    Horror movies are honest. They let you know exactly what they are from the get-go. Slasher flick? Gonna have a guy (usually) who stalks and murders a bunch of teenagers. Zombie film? You’ll have a…

  • On the (Internet) Radio

    I went on Mediabistro’s Morning Media Menu show this AM to talk with the smart and fabulous Jason Boog and Matt Van Hoven about China, infrastructure, and apocalypse porn. To listen, click here.

  • Why Your Alien Abduction Movie Needs Malcolm Gladwell

    “The Fourth Kind” is just the kind of joyless tragedy porn that I love to write about — lame, ineffective, and a total victim of its own hubris. Also this one really needed a big…

  • Why Do We Like Scary Movies?

    It’s a good question. I get asked it all the time. Actually, what I get all the time is more like, “Ugh. You seriously write about horror movies? How can you WATCH those things –…

  • Just Because a Movie Is God Awful Doesn’t Mean It’s Misogynistic

    Which is the perfect segue into this week’s Horror Chick, a discussion of the terribleness of Antichrist. I’d like to give a proper hat tip to Garrett, who is responsible for alerting me to the…

  • Saw 1-6: The Most Important Movies Ever Made. No, Really

    No sarcasm. I’m being totally serious. Just read it.

  • “I’m Not a Climate Scientist, But I Play One in This Book”

    I’ve written a lot about climate change. I’ve also worked and written for the authors of Freakonomics. So I’ve gotten a few requests for comment on the huge controversy surrounding the climate change chapter in…

  • On Horror Films, Hefner, and Porn

    This week’s Horror Chick is about Paranormal Activity, that new “Blair Witch”-type thing that’s being hailed the “scariest movie ever made” (if by “scariest” you mean “most packed with set pieces from Bed Bath &…

  • Men Are Dumb: Special Letterman Edition

    I can’t tell you how many men have told me that men are idiots. It doesn’t come in response to any prompting (”Hey Reid/Neil/Dave/Tom, do you think men are idiots?” “Why yes, I do”). No,…

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About…Anything

    Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as…