http://www.flickr.com/photos/naes/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I’ve been thinking about the “culture of life” this week. No, I’m not heeding Pope Benedict’s enticing (Ha!) call to convert to Catholicism. But the Fort Hood tragedy hilights a difference in how many of us view life, a difference as distinct as the chalk outline around the felled victims. [...]
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Waiting To Be A Person
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AP Equals Assholes Promoted
OK. First things first. I’m not vetting this and going over it with a fine tooth editorial comb. Also, I have been in the Elijah Craig, so take this for what it’s worth. What kind of society are we left with if we can’t trust journalists to draw coherent inferences. This from an AP “fact [...]
He Be Irresistable
It’s worth noting that NPR, a favorite news source of mine, occasionally does things that make me question what the old hippies are smoking. A few days ago their normally literate front page editors let the Ebonics riddled tease below litter my screen. Considering the subject, it feels more like a wagered dare than an [...]
The Truth is a Bitter Pill to Swallow
“They fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration…” What Senator Obama said about the lack of jobs leading to bitterness has been repeated ad nauseum. I won’t reprint the quote here, but you can read and listen to the speech for yourself. Besides, if we insist on confusing pull quotes for actual insight, [...]
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Blogging Vs. Journalism
For some time now blogging and journalism have intersected in ways that complicate defining the relationship between the two disciplines. As bloggers, it’s increasingly important we play a more active role distinguishing what we do from journalism without diminishing blogging’s relevance. This notion has become even clearer since I started my own blog. A post [...]
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What Willy Does Like the Cold?
I love many things about the British: their accents, their humour, the Aston Martin, those sexy-eyed women… They’re a different lot they are. OK, you get the picture; I’m an Anglophile. But it’s nice to see that for all our differences, we have some things in common.
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Putting Hip Hop on Full Blast
People who know me more than a minute discover I’m not a big fan of corporate Hip Hop. The “bling”, objectification of women, and drugs offered by mainstream rappers paints a too thin veneer on a culturally rich, ethnically diverse people. As larger and better known recording companies continue to rake in the money, I’ve [...]
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Happy Anniversary Baby
Twenty years ago I was tasked with cataloging a warehouse of carburetors. It was my first photography job and involved taking clearly identifiable carburetor portraits, matching them with their respective part numbers, and assembling the lot into a homemade scrapbook. Picture a family photo album, Monster Garage style. Like any novice, my results were mixed [...]
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Sticks and Stones
When George Bush predicted Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for President, he wasn’t just tipping his hat to her campaign prowess, or her unassailable plans to fix healthcare, Iraq, and any other number of societal ills. He was voicing the hopes of Republicans who share the vision of retaining the executive seat in [...]
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