Horror, Pop Culture, and Current Events

In the past I’ve connected aspects of the fantastic to popular culture and current events. With this post I do so again, first in serious fashion, and second with tongue in cheek.

In a recent post I asked readers to consider America’s continuing struggles with the legacy of racism through reflection on Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. With this post I direct readers to the comments of the late, great Vincent Price on racism and religious prejudice. His words are as important for us today as when he uttered them years ago:

And on a lighter note, a while back President Obama took some heat from animal rights groups over the swatting of a fly during a television interview. New footage has become available on this incident:

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