Lee:Ugh. “I Got a Feelin’,” the Black Eyed Peas, song, was nominated for the “Record of the Year” Grammy. What a joke. Though I don’t want to do it the service of even mentioning it on this site, it’s worth repeating that this is an awful, awful song. It has no redeeming quality.

Fenzel: TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT!!

Lee: Not lyrical, not musical, not cultural

Fenzel: LET’S LIVE IT UP!!

Lee: If anything, it actively subtracts from music in general for being so bad

Fenzel: I GOT MY MONEY!!!

Lee: As in, it makes other songs worse. Not just Black Eyed Peas songs, but the life’s work of other musicians is made less by the existence of this song

Fenzel: LET’S SPEND IT UP!!!

Lee: Hey Sheely, let’s Overthink Miley Cyrus’s hit single, “Party in the USA.”

First question: is this song even worth Overthinking?

[Stokes and Fenzel kick off Halloween Week 2009 by engaging in a spirited debate about the morals of Zombie Atrocity.  Note: Spoilers for Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead follow.]

Resolved: In most zombie movies, the characters are undone when they become more zombielike (i.e. betray each other selfishly).

Stokes:  This premise is wrong, and what’s more it’s incoherent. You say that to become zombielike is to betray    selfishly. When did a zombie ever betray anyone?

Fenzel: Have you gone off your nut? Zombies betray people all the time! They just don’t think of it as betrayal because loyalty has become meaningless. When a parent tries to eat their kid, that’s betrayal from one perspective – and lunchtime from the other.

Stokes:  This is just typical misguided attempt by my opponent to drag zombies into a moral system that has no place for them. There’s a certain ghoulishness to the scenario you describe, sure, but – as zombie movies have told us SO many times – “She’s not your mother anymore!” Which means you aren’t her child, which means she is not betraying you. Also, let’s focus in on that other word: “selfishly.” I submit it to you that a zombie cannot behave selfishly, because a zombie does not have a sense of self.