Me personally, I have a number of vices, not all of which i care to discuss - much less blog about - in public. One of my many vices is my appreciation of the Television Arts. My appreciation is - though not limitless - quite deep. I enjoy many schools of the teevee arts, [...]
From the thoughtful minds at In These Times, an unusual analyasis of how 9/11 impacted us. An exerpt:
Whatever the natural similarities between December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, the association of the two has led us to convert—first in rhetoric, later in fact—a battle against a small band of clever, murderous fundamentalists into a [...]
So I was in the midst of my nightly YouTube trolling session when I stumbled upon a brilliant, but of course sad, segment from The Daily Show, wherein our host Jon Stewart reveals the disgusting level of jadedness and filthy materialism that passes for culture and news these days. The piece, seen here, gives a [...]
I no longer have a ‘land line’. Instead I use my cell phone and internet-based telephone service, via my cable broadband connection. The upshot: by virtue of being VoIP, my calls are not subject to NSA wiretapping.
WashingtonPost.com, one of the better online ‘mainstream media’ sites, has announced their headfirst dive into the the new media world of the interactive community by allowing reader comments on all of their articles. This is a move I consider both brave and a no-brainer.
On the one hand, their status as the nation’s de facto #2 [...]