- Apr 28, 9:47pm
- Thank you all so much for making SU a wonderful community - it has been a joy to receive the fine things you've found around the web. Thank you for considering my own work, at times, to be worth a link or stumble.
- Book Review: Last Journey, Darrell Griffin Sr. - B&Review
 Jul 2, 12:57pm  (2 reviews) http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/...- Tasteless and - perhaps worse - intellectually shallow. The book should be read, not this book review. fta: "The reader can't help but think that if senior members of the Bush administration had been as hungry for knowledge about the Middle East as Staff Sergeant Griffin the war would have turned out differently or might never have been fought. Skip's journal entries range from questions of being and justice to mind searing renderings of the suffering of Iraqi civilians and the deaths of fellow soldiers."
The life of the mind is not just about empathy. It is also about making hard decisions, and those decisions can involve harm.
- Hollywood, Littleton, and Us - violence | National Review | Find Articles...
 Jun 29, 9:09pm (1 review) tv http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1...- From the page: "Focusing on the "violence" in an episode of Jerry Springer is a perfect indication of how wrongheaded most media critics are. A couple of drag queens flailing away at each other, or two guys swinging wide-of-the-mark fists over a plump, unattractive girl, is hardly the root cause of the current wave of adolescent freak-outs. The really sick thing about the Springer show isn't the fisticuffs. It's the cruelty: People ambush their girlfriends and boyfriends (sometimes both in the same show) with revelations and confessions designed to destroy them. It's hard to keep in mind, what with the screaming and the air- pumping, but some poor schmo is always left out of the joke. Some real person is sitting in a television studio getting his feelings trampled on in the most callous way, usually fighting back tears while the tormentor wears a kind of half-proud, half-embarrassed smile. Even drag queens and hoochie girls deserve better."
- Michael Jackson, The Entertainer, Will Always Live in Our Hearts. A Guest...
- Jun 25, 9:53pm (17 reviews) pop-music http://loyalkng.com/2009/06/26/michael-j...
- fta: "I had to abandon watching Twitter updates tonight because while quite a few were more than willing to admit we all grew up with Michael Jackson, and that dying at 50 sucks, there was just too much "he was a child molester I'm not sorry he's dead" stuff. It is true people not only make mistakes, but that some mistakes cannot be forgiven. Morality has a very nasty side to it: it has to make sure people live in infamy, that their lives are not emulated again. But that's Michael Jackson the celebrity, perhaps. Michael Jackson the entertainer is something else. You can see in the video that the dance is cheesy, as is the white glove and the over-expressed emotion. But the music moves; he's into it; every move he makes on that stage seems perfect. It's fun, and fun in a way you want to get into it. "King of Pop" may sound like an exaggeration, but every moment of that video it looks like the only way to describe what one is seeing. In a sense, what one is seeing is innocent; it's just fun, there's nothing political or subversive or desperate about it. And it takes immense talent to pull off - a quick comparison with the recent performances of others demonstrates aptly that not everyone can be a pop star, much less a good pop star. Rest in peace, Michael Jackson. Good or bad, better or worse, you will be missed. As I watch that video and look out at the audience, I realize something: as you changed, something about America was changing too, and that is certainly a topic for later."
- Faster, Please! & Thursday Thoughts
- Jun 25, 11:18am (1 review) activism http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/20...
- From the page: "Meanwhile, there's a lot we should be doing to help the Iranian people. The two big items are a)build a strike fund, and b) set up a communications system that enables Iranians to report news to an offshore location (whether on a ship, an island, in London or in Los Angeles doesn't matter) and then relays that information to all Iranians. They need to know what's going on. People in Isfahan need the news from Tabriz, Shiraz, and Tehran, etc."
- CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap and Trade
- Jun 25, 8:57am (2 reviews) economics http://www.heritage.org/Research/Energya...
- From the page: "Most problematic is the CBO's complete omission of the economic damage resulting from restricted energy use. As footnote 3 on page 4 of the CBO analysis reads, "The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap. The reduction in GDP would also include indirect general equilibrium effects, such as changes in the labor supply resulting from reductions in real wages and potential reductions in the productivity of capital and labor."[4] In The Heritage Foundation's analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation, the GDP hit in 2020 was $161 billion (2009 dollars). For a family of four, that translates into $1,870--a pretty big chunk of change that the CBO is ignoring."
- Assault Behind Bars: How big a problem is prison rape -- and what can...
- Jun 23, 1:24pm
 (1 review) crime http://www.reason.com/news/show/119234.h... - From the page: "...lower-end estimates given by correctional organizations suggest that 20,000 to 40,000 inmates are sexually assaulted in American prisons every year. Those are figures no civilized society should accept. "
- Faster, Please! & So NOW What's Going on in Iran?
- Jun 17, 6:26pm (1 review) politics http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/20...
- From the page: "It seems that tomorrow, Thursday, will be the first big showdown. The regime is massing two Revolutionary Guards divisions for an assault on the dissidents - something like twenty thousand soldiers from outside Tehran - and the Mousavi people don't want to give them time to organize and prepare their attacks. No doubt there are all kinds of secret meetings going on, as the various military, militia, religious and political leaders try to read the chicken entrails and guess their destiny."
- Pajamas Media ยป The Realities of 'College Education'
- Jun 16, 12:22am (1 review) university http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-realiti...
- I have serious disagreements with this article, most notably the tone. The following is from my comment on the page itself: "This is simply not serious; it is a collection of conservative stereotypes about learning generally, not just the libertine and excessive nature of college today. It borders on attacking the very learning the Founders engaged in - i.e. knowing their way around people like Francis Bacon, John Locke, Montesquieu - in implying strongly that educated people are defined by skills merely. The article asserts the Founders' own learning can be done on one's own: I challenge all of you who agree with that to read your way from Plato to Locke, and give yourself the appropriate historical context for each thinker, and be able to elaborate the relevant debates for me. And yes, there are right and wrong answers, and if you think that you can do this and not be held accountable, you've got another thing coming: talk about the Founders wrongly and those of us who know better will laugh at you. This is not as easy a task as the author proclaims it is."
- Dprogram.net
- Jun 15, 12:43am (12 reviews) http://dprogram.net/
- The number of people who approve of this site on SU is staggering - no wonder our world is in the mess it is in.
If you're on the fence and tempted to believe this stuff, message me. You have the right to be sane, to make yourself smarter, and to counter the awful tendencies of our media and gov't in better ways.
- Jonas Brothers | Home
- Jun 14, 9:35pm (7 reviews) http://jonasbrothers.com/
- I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. Am better now - hit the stumble button and promptly saw some spam site with lots of random pics. Ahh, much better.
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