Communication - Dangerous Intersection

Parable by Theramin Soup

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:January 14, 2009
Post category:Bigotry Communication Meaning of Life Religion Videos
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Instruction Manual for Life: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg[/youtube] A brilliant illustration of what most of our on-blog arguments are about.

Legacy

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:January 14, 2009
Post category:American Culture Communication Culture Current Events Economy Education Energy History ignorance Iraq Law law and order Military Noteworthy Politics Religion Reproductive Rights The Middle East War
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I watched a good portion of Bush's last press conference and couldn't help thinking it was an audition for the part of a recovering junkie recently fallen off the wagon. It wasn't the words so much as the body language and facial expressions that held my attention. Surreal? Hasn't the…

virtual worlds collide

Post author:Lisa Rokusek
Post published:January 12, 2009
Post category:American Culture Communication Culture Media Technology
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Last month I took a trip to Portland, OR. I fell in love with the city, the people and the energy. I met some cool people. I saw a great deal of collaboration and people actively engaged in the community around them. One of the groups was a group of…

I saw a nipple.

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:January 7, 2009
Post category:American Culture Art Censorship Human animals photography Sex Whimsy
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While walking to the Missouri State Court of Appeals today, I thought I saw a nipple.

Then I got closer . . . I DID! I DID see a nipple!There it was, prominently displayed in a building housing a prestigious courthouse, a court run by the government of the "Show Me" state of Missouri!!

Now, that’s odd … A prominent agency of my federal government (the FCC) is spending huge sums of money trying to punish a TV network for displaying a part of a nipple of Janet Jackson. My state government is simultaneously and shamelessly displaying that same forbidden body part.

Science and Religion: Differences?

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:January 7, 2009
Post category:Communication Culture Education ignorance Language Psychology Cognition Religion Science scientific method
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We have all been through one cycle after another of debate with someone who insists that science is a religion. This is a tiresome argument on one level because it is one with all sorts of things that fall under the category of "I know it when I see it." …

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