Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Old Media's Awkward Embrace

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The awkward embrace by which the established media figures are halfheartedly wrapping their arms around their heir apparent reminds me of t...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Reform: Past, Present, Future, or Somewhere in Between

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Once upon a time, we saw progress, particularly technological and medical progress, as both miraculous and uniformly desired. The romantici...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Quote of the Week

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Diana Christensen: Hi. I'm Diana Christensen, a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles. Laureen Hobbs: I'm Laureen Hobb...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Saturday Video

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Friday, December 11, 2009

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Speech in a Spiritual Context

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President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Speech reads to me, in many ways, more like a sermon than a political or ideological treatise. Th...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tiger Woods and the Thorny Matter of Racial Identity

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I thought I'd never be the next person to write about Tiger Woods. That is, until today, when the sensationalist aspects of this incre...

War in Peace

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The Soft News/Hard News Debate: Internet Edition

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Time Magazine , or at least its online edition, seeks to understand why Google seems to love highlighting a particular "news source...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Draft Board Realities and Gender-Based Arguments

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This post is written in response to a very well-crafted argument against the resumption of military conscription. What I will say is that ...
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An Award!

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PE Nolan gave me an award! May the circle be unbroken.
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Monday, December 07, 2009

A Date Which Will Live in Ignorance

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This, the sixty-eighth anniversary of the date which will live in infamy, is rarely circled in calendars or noted in any wholesale fashion a...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Quote of the Week

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"Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until w...
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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Saturday Video

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Friday, December 04, 2009

Blessed are the Pure in Interpretation

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Recently, it has become known that a group of conservative Bible scholars are attempting to re-translate the Bible to fit a decidedly conser...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Politico Reaches a New Low

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I wasn't sure Politico could stoop any lower than it did when it published seven highly subjective (to put it lightly) meta-narratives ...