Archive for April, 2007
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Call me crazy, but I’m suddenly starting to take a liking to Bill Richardson. Of course, besides that one statement about Iraq, there’s very little to suggest that he’s not just as obnoxiously focus-group tested and corporate-logo clean as Obama and Clinton besides the fact that he hasn’t gotten anywhere big enough for that to […]
BattleCry, Cont.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007I’ve been giving this whole BattleCry thing more thought, and there’s something else that genuinely disturbs me about this group. It’s not just that they’re marketing to young people - it’s how they’re doing it. There’s something different, and far more insidious than normal branding going on here.
What’s really disturbing about this group is how […]
Good news
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007It looks like the kids behind “Voices in Conflict” at Wilton are taking their act off-campus. It was only a matter of time.
Here’s hoping the play goes into production somewhere nearby.
Morality!™
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007A few months ago, I was reading some stuff about a Marxist philosopher by the name of Louis Althusser that really stuck with me. The idea of his that I found particularly interesting was that of the Ideological State Apparatus. An Ideological State Apparatus is basically any institution that tries to impose an ideology or […]
Monday, April 9th, 2007
I’m of two minds about this.
Last week, Tim O’Reilly, a conference promoter and book publisher who is credited with coining the term Web 2.0, began working with Jimmy Wales, creator of the communal online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to create a set of guidelines to shape online discussion and debate.
Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers […]
Monday, April 9th, 2007
I can’t decide whether this sort of thing is symptomatic of deep vindictiveness and desire to punish political enemies (re: Valerie Plame) or a profound paranoia and cowardice. Is the administration really so insecure and so distrusting in the foundation of our democracy that they’re scared shitless of a benign Princeton professor?
This goes back to […]
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Look, evolution can’t be real, right? In fact, the “theory” of evolution is patently ridiculous. I can prove it. With science.
See, Charles Darwin himself summarized the theory of evolution as such:
“I posit that complex, multi-cellular life, visible to the human eye, was actually spontaneously generated from a jar of peanut butter after it was exposed […]
Grindhouse
Sunday, April 8th, 2007This movie is probably the most fun ten dollars I’ve spent in a while. The trailers, in particular were great, especially for the absurd taglines like, “They picked the wrong Mexican to FUCK WITH” and “This Thanksgiving, there will BE. NO. LEFTOVERS.”
The actual double feature was excellent as well, and I think either half […]
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Greg Sargent does a great job of underscoring what I think everyone already understands: Giuliani’s foreign policy qualifications basically amount to having been mayor of New York City on September 11. Read the link for some total ignorance of foreign policy.
Apparently Giuliani’s understanding of the current political situation in the Middle East is that radical […]
Pretty, Prettaaay Good Friday
Friday, April 6th, 2007Got the day off today, so my day’s been pretty slow. Very slow news day also, which is either good or bad depending on how you look at it. So not much going on. Wrote a little bit. And then I saw this. It’s an interview between Ricky Gervais and Larry David, two of the […]
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