Episode 590: Big Trouble in Big China
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we try to get ourselves banned in China by talking about censorship, protest, and Tom Cruise’s jacket in Top Gun.
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Censorship on Overthinking It
The Odds are Never in Your Favor: Pareto Efficiency in The Hunger Games
Keeping people poor makes them easier to control. Controlling people makes it easier to keep them poor.
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Overthunk: A Defense of Cussin’ in Hip-Hop
In a genre devoted to wordplay, foul language is not a necessary evil but rather a positive good.
Great Moment In Rock ‘n’ Roll Emasculation
I really wish I could blame the Chinese for this one, but alas, it seems like the Brits censored their own Led Zeppelin and forced a minor lyrical change for a performance of “Whole Lotta Love” at the Olympic Closing … Continued
Six Words or Less
The authors of Freakonomics posted on their NY Times Blog an invitation for readers to submit a six word motto for the US. Being industrious, the crew of Overthinking It individually submitted some suggestions, which were denied (!) by whoever … Continued
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