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early morning round up
Mar. 14th, 2008 06:30 amGreat articles on Salon.com today:
kids & internet which has this lovely couple of lines
Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize. Wow, I never knew her privileged family was all mobbed up. Awfully lucky, don't t you think? The day belonged to our guy though when he said, "I don't think anyone who was planning to run for president would say the place to start is to be an African American man named Barack Obama"
glenn greenwald on the lunacy of the US House.
rise of the superclass misses the crucial point that the super class aren't the only ones who wouldn't mind seeing the borders dissolve. we have our own reasons. Which reminds me of this really thought-provoking article from Reason about worker mobility. I've thought about subscribing again to Reason, it gives me a much needed dose of nonpartisan reflection. They're very libertarian, but I spend so much time being a leftist that I sometimes need doses of that to remind me.
This is genuinely funny, and I'm sure will be wildly inflated by various sides of our culture:
Which reminds me, I've always meant to link to this amazing Bush debate video from when he was running for TX governor. The dude was a total policy wonk. I still wonder sometimes, does he have Alzheimers? Is he on drugs? They say freedom is like a drug. Maybe he ran around snorting so much of that freedom he's been protecting that he lost his tether.
kids & internet which has this lovely couple of lines
"Kids today -- we're telling you! -- don't read, don't write, don't care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods. The Internet, according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters, or perhaps pens), has "seduced a whole generation into its inanities."This is true. Also, if the kids are so bad at reading, who the fuck is buying all those books? More kids books are being written and sold than at just about any time in history right now. More adult books too.
Or is it the older generation that the Internet has seduced -- into the inanities of leveling charges based on fear, ignorance and old-media, multiple-choice testing? So much so that we can't see that the Internet is only a means of communication, and one that has created a generation, perhaps the first, of writers, activists, storytellers? When the world worked in hard copy, no parent or teacher ever begrudged teenagers who disappeared into their rooms to write letters to friends -- or a movie review, or an editorial for the school paper on the first president they'll vote for. Even 15-year-old boys are sharing some part of their feelings with someone out there. "
Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize. Wow, I never knew her privileged family was all mobbed up. Awfully lucky, don't t you think? The day belonged to our guy though when he said, "I don't think anyone who was planning to run for president would say the place to start is to be an African American man named Barack Obama"
glenn greenwald on the lunacy of the US House.
rise of the superclass misses the crucial point that the super class aren't the only ones who wouldn't mind seeing the borders dissolve. we have our own reasons. Which reminds me of this really thought-provoking article from Reason about worker mobility. I've thought about subscribing again to Reason, it gives me a much needed dose of nonpartisan reflection. They're very libertarian, but I spend so much time being a leftist that I sometimes need doses of that to remind me.
This is genuinely funny, and I'm sure will be wildly inflated by various sides of our culture:
Which reminds me, I've always meant to link to this amazing Bush debate video from when he was running for TX governor. The dude was a total policy wonk. I still wonder sometimes, does he have Alzheimers? Is he on drugs? They say freedom is like a drug. Maybe he ran around snorting so much of that freedom he's been protecting that he lost his tether.