John Sears | March 9, 2012
Well, while we’re not exactly surprised that an institution of higher learning has decided to officially Anti-Zombie prejudice in the curriculum, The Zombie Rights Campaign is nevertheless saddened by this news: EAST LANSING, Mich. – Forget Advanced Political Theory or even Introduction to Chemistry. The one class that everyone is dying to take this summer [...]
John Sears | February 19, 2012
Academia has flirted with Anti-Zombie attitudes and prejudices in the past but this is, I have to say, the most direct use I’ve yet seen of prevailing Undead hatred yet in an academic study: According to a new study, feeling fear may actually help people to better engage with abstract art. In the study, which [...]
John Sears | February 12, 2012
Given the return of ‘The Walking Dead’, io9 (our longtime foes) decided to solicit opinions on when it’s ‘okay’ to murder people for the supposedly heinous crime of being Undead: The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We [...]
John Sears | December 15, 2011
Now here’s a disturbing piece largely attempting to justify, within a legal framework, the persecution of the Differently Animated, while warning potential persecutors about possible legal liability: Let me interrupt our regular programming to ponder some of the legal issues raised by the sudden appearance of zombie hordes. Zombies have absolutely no control over their [...]
John Sears | December 14, 2011
It’s amazing how far some people will go to create imaginary scenarios in which the Undead are the bad guys. Even when, typically, it’s the Living in those same scenarios, who, by any reasonable standard are causing the trouble. Case in point: the people who get trampled or hurt every holiday season jostling for scarce [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2011
You know the phenomenon where someone appears to be flattering you but in fact is making a smarmy, sarcastic insult? There’s a term for those: ‘backhanded’ compliments, and Zombies get them quite a bit. Usually it’s a way of playing up how, supposedly, unintelligent and savage Zombies are – but boy, aren’t they persistent? Brother. [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
We came, we saw, we did noble battle against the forces of intolerance. Well, *I* did, anyway. Yes, the trip to engage in a heated ideological struggle for the promotion of Undead Equality has been successfully completed, and I am here to tell about it. And brag about it. Really brag about it. As mentioned [...]
John Sears | November 28, 2011
Yes, that title is partially just an excuse to use the phrase ‘beset by woe’, what can I say, I’m a bit strange. In the last day: -my laptop crashed, corrupting a ton of my files, necessitating an all nighter to restore some things not backed up in Dropbox -one of our bathrooms had a [...]
John Sears | November 27, 2011
Well, yesterday two big events occurred in my quest for ZombieWriMo glory. First, the evil one, Princess of Lies, Mother of all Treachery Michelle Hartz sneakily got to 50k words first. The second thing is that, of course, I got there as well, and have now effectively completed the ZombieWriMo challenge too. So what now? [...]
John Sears | November 25, 2011
Here’s what I’m thankful for right now: next Tuesday I get to go all the way to Texas* to debate a learned academic on the subject of Zombie Rights. And they made an awesome poster to promote the event too! *Rumors that this venue proved especially appealing due to the relative weather conditions in Madison [...]