Right v. wrong
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:33:08 -0700
These are the actual sides in the current discussion on torture – particularly the waterboarding technique which is defined as torture by every legal authority aside from the discredited memos created by the Bush 43 regime’s OLC. The coda to the linked post: … this is a defining moment for America. This is not now and never has been a question of right versus left. It is right vs wrong. It is a bright line which the black-and-white crowd has suddenly decided is oh-so-gray. But we have thei
The Collison of Politics, Celebrity and the Media: Barry Levinson Goes To “PoliWood” (indieWIRE)
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:12 -0700
“In the most simplistic way, it’s really about the collison of politics, celebrity and the media,” Barry Levinson told indieWIRE about his new documentary “PoliWood,” premiering next Friday night as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. “Basically, how they collide and how they feed off one another.
WI Joint Finance: On a roll…with our money
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:47:23 -0700
The Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee is on a roll. The Committee is busy running through various proposals to be included in Governor Doyle’s Budget Bill. This steamroller of a budget is flattening everything in its path. Yesterday during hearings, single mothers and spouses owed support got squashed. Wispolitics.com offered this exchange on its website: The committee is starting off with the Department of Revenue budget papers, leading off with number 680, which sets up a mechanism for th
Friday, April 24, 2009
News flash on white gold rings
It's So Easy to Travel Green! Independent Traveler Unveils Green Travel Resource Center
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0700
God, And The Death Of Atheism…
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:03:18 -0700
The ice may be starting to break up. The sun peeks through the clouds. Here and there and once in awhile. But, for the most part, the partisan fogs remain.. This night is never darker than during political “honeymoons”; when, layered onto normal “exceptionalism”, we Americans indulge ourselves in the deliberate “bubble” afforded to “new” administrations. This simply exacerbates our intellectual problems, further prostituting scholarship, journalism and honest criticism. Until the rush of gu
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0700
God, And The Death Of Atheism…
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:03:18 -0700
The ice may be starting to break up. The sun peeks through the clouds. Here and there and once in awhile. But, for the most part, the partisan fogs remain.. This night is never darker than during political “honeymoons”; when, layered onto normal “exceptionalism”, we Americans indulge ourselves in the deliberate “bubble” afforded to “new” administrations. This simply exacerbates our intellectual problems, further prostituting scholarship, journalism and honest criticism. Until the rush of gu
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