What’s frivolous in your life?
Gonna watch Bill Moyers tonight? Big teevee!
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Don’t go here unless you have a hammer and some nails in your hand.
Nail it shut. Did you?
GRRRRRRRRRRRR! I am trying to file our union’s PAC report, which is due by midnight. It won’t upload.
Not frivolous, but I had to vent.
I just may not be cranky this summer.
On a down note, my vehicle’s registration has been suspended because the ins. people didn’t get me the paperwork in time. Then there’s the smog issue. We failed smog, spent money we didn’t have to get it fixed, I took the car in today to get retested and the car broke the machine!
Other than that, I’m just looking foward to my little girl turning 5 tomorrow and celebrating at the Festival of Books.
Cool! 😉
Very cool!
And Happy Birthday to the FabooGirl!
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It was absolutely amazing to me, watching Moyers. Wright was rational, Christian, and really understandable.
Then I clicked to CNN. The interview was completely misinterpreted–deliberately so–and misrepresented.
It was so obvious it was criminal.
What are we up against?
Here is a really excellent delegate-count analysis piece of the quality we usually get from Booman, but from our friend Jed at Jed Report. I was so impressed with his ideas that I felt it needed to be promoted here. It needs some serious promotion all around the intertubes…
Very good!
What the bastards in the media the Tweety’s, Joe(dead interrn) Skankboro, and CNN et al have done to this man Rev. Wright is disgusting, and criminal. All of those fools who have twisted every friggin word of his for political reasons don’t have the intelligence in Wright’s pinky…..
That is what we are up against, a bunch of corporate idiot shills….
Rev. Wright was unbelievable and incredibly brave, Moyers was amazing and was obviously so engaged with the man, that all these idiots have vilified! And that goes for Hillary Clinton(NeoCon-NY) and her band of losers too!
In a rational universe, Reverend Wright would be considered a citizen with a valid opinion, that he has a right to argue without being slandered, shunned and vilified.
Now that the right-wing has the power to dictate politically correct speech, (although they still whine on and on about liberal political correctness) opinions critical of the U.S. are beyond the pale and must not be expressed in the media.
We’ve substituted rigid social norms for external edict in dictating what is allowed in our communal speech. Soviet-style curtailment of free speech was no more effective than the corporate media in the U.S. at stifling open debate.
There are many points of view that cannot be expressed these days, and this, more than anything else, is causing the dumbing down of America — our schools, our literature, our intellectual and cultural life — all our impoverished. When people do not feel free to express their thoughts without risk of severe social sanction, pretty soon they stop having original thoughts at all.
1984. We’re getting closer, except Big Brother lives on the inside, censoring our perceptions before they are even conscious. We are not exposed to different points of view, so we assume there are none besides the conventional ‘wisdom’ offered by our media pundits in the Beltway village society. What a nation of sheep we have become, who lack the ability to reason, to form an opinion that might upset our fellow citizens.
FILED UNDER: FRIVOLOUS GEEKDOM
I discovered that an HTML tag I’d always overlooked is actually useful! I am now inspired to go through all the HTML tags and summarize them from a standardista perspective – for my own reference, mostly, although I’ll post em when I’m done.
<base>Very cool – it sets a base url for all relative urls on the site – extra useful in a situation where you’re converting a site written locally with relative urls to a site that needs absolute urls for some reason. (I need to check if it applies just to links, or also to urls in the stylesheet & img src attributes.)How about a post JUST on Wright?
Watched him on Moyer- 8 hours later and I am still trying to figure out what the man said that is wrong!
Wright believes in collective punishment (specifically, of United States citizens for transgressions that took place a century or more ago) as a form of divine justice. That is a viewpoint common in some religious circles, and is explicitly part of the Judeo-Christian heritage (see 2 Kings 23:26-27). It’s also an atavistic ethic, totally unsuited to the modern world.
atavistic?
I was trying to use a less offensive term than “primitive”.
While atavistic has a meaning in terms of genetics (appearance of a long-suppressed gene), it is also found in contemporary dialogue (e.g. “atavistic politics”), so I thought it wasn’t inappropriate.
I’ll have to track down the Moyers piece, but from what I’ve seen and heard, there’s a big difference between Wright’s “God Damn America” and, say, Hagee’s “God damned New Orleans because of the gays.”
The video is available here (in 2 parts): LINK
Did you happen to watch the Moyers’ interview?
Frivolous?
Am going to half-pay attention to the NFL draft today. See how the Niners screw this up.