Culture - 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…

Yet another example of why “Sunshine is the best disinfectant”

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:January 12, 2009
Post category:American Culture Iraq War
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This latest example of well-armed humans being cruel to relatively helpless humans has embarrassed Israel, as it should. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaPZLNLBu8[/youtube] Meanwhile, there are more than 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, doing who-knows-what because the U.S. media is not covering Iraq anymore. The official word is that our soldiers are still out…

Bill Cosby discusses Barack Obama

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:January 11, 2009
Post category:American Culture Politics Psychology Cognition
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Upbeat roundtable by Meet the Press, featuring comedian/author Bill Cosby, Congresswoman Maxine Watters, Adrian Fenty (Mayor of Washington D.C.) and Alvin F. Poussaint. Cosby and Poussaint have co-authored a book entitled Come On, People: on the Path from Victims to Victors (2007). The main theme of this roundtable is what…

Andrew Wahl on The “News”A common word in the headline? Where has Vivek Ramaswamy been hiding from the world for the past ten…
Erich Vieth on Huxley’s PredictionSame impulse toward totalitarianism, but now equipped with powerful new tools that couldn't have dre…
Andrew Wahl on Huxley’s PredictionIt is not a "new kind of Totalitarianism" ... it is the same one we have had around since before Ald…
Journalism Redux - Dangerous Intersection on The MSNBC Division of the DNC[…] already know that MSNBC’s mission is to help the DNC. One of their executives admitt…
Rita on David Koch’s 1980 Insane Libertarian PlatformThis is more relevant today than ever before probably. It's time to reel back 90% of government prog…
Erich Vieth on The “News”A recent example of a non-organic media narrative:
Anonymous on David Koch’s 1980 Insane Libertarian PlatformWe’re not going back. Treason : Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against t…
Anonymous on Did Adam have a belly-button?nowhere in the Bible does it say anthing about navels. However, there were cities that existed at th…
Charles Crook on What Does the DOJ Think of Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Donald Trump?So correct, for a not so perfect candidate, but the best choice.
Beth L on The Silence of the White House While Speech is Being Muzzled World WideThank you for not being silent about the erosion of free speech. So many people are complacent, or i…