Zombie Entertainment: A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance and the Red Pill

Kimberly Paxton
shtfplan.com
December 13, 2012

Zombies are the new vampires in the entertainment world, but unlike pop culture vampires, they don’t sparkle, they aren’t sexy and brooding, and you don’t want to turn into one.

The most popular show in cable TV history is The Walking Dead. Dozens, if not hundreds, of zombies are slain in every episode.  Head shots are taken with no more compunction than swatting as mosquito before it lands on [...]

‘CORPORATE PUPPET’… ‘SOLD OUT!’

From NYT:

Tina Fineberg for The New York TimesOccupy Wall Street demonstrators were in Times Square on Wednesday night to protest an event for President Obama.

10:06 p.m. | Updated More than 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to a Midtown hotel on Wednesday night to protest a fund-raising event for President Obama.

Escorted by police vehicles as they helped snarl traffic across the Times Square area, beginning at Bryant Park, the group settled [...]

How to survive a zombie apocalypse

 

Zombie slayer Daryl Dixon walks point with his crossbow, an essential survival tool, in the AMC series “The Walking Dead.”

The Centers for Disease Control has actually gone to the trouble of posting its own guide to battling the undead. So shouldn’t you take at least a few precautions?

The government’s tongue-in-cheek communique includes a go-bag of practical products for surviving a zombie apocalypse, such as a utility knife, [...]