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
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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 –…
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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…
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Saw 1-6: The Most Important Movies Ever Made. No, Really
No sarcasm. I’m being totally serious. Just read it.
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“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…
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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 &…
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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,…
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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…
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Backdated Movie Reviews (aka The Internet Ate My Clips)
One of the problems with relying on Los Internets for your job is that things can disappear. Granted, stuff vanishes in tangible reality as well (just look at newspapers) but when your writing exists as…
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A New Look
Yah change! Change is good! We like change! Oh who are we kidding — it scares us more than Sandra Bullock or bugs the size of trash cans. But it was long overdue in this…
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Bullsh@t In Spaaaace!!!
Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since…