Well... I just got back from going to see the documentary Uncontitutional and the Orpheum. Afterward there was a panel/citizen dialogue thing but I didn't have a chance to comment so I'm going to put my coment here, basically for the sake of not forgetting it as I believe those that read this journal don't really need a reminder ( Read more... )

As I'm sure you may have heard, there is a lot of controversy surrounding gymnastics, specifically mens gymnastics at this year's Olympic Games. I'm not going to respond to the specific controversies as I have already expressed my opinions on these many times and many places. I will however, make some general remarks ( Read more... )

Great speech at http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl from Aug 23.

I recently finished reading the book The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, by Amy Goodman. I must say it was quite good. The best way I can describe it is to say that it's like today's Manufacturing Consent. In my opinion, Manufacturing Consent is better in the sense that it is more ( Read more... )

I wrote this and posted it on the TIME opinion leaders weblog. (It's more a message board than blog but TIME doesn't seem to have that part figured out.) It's kind of a general response to the question of whether we should be worried about terrorists entering the country illegally to attack and what we should be doing about the threat. Much of ( Read more... )

Okay, I could go on and on about this issue, and so can everyone else, but for now I'll try to stick to one (or maybe two) main points. What I'm really getting tired or hearing is how allowing gay marriage (or even not banning it in the constitution) will ruin families. Senator Wayne Allard went so far as to say "There is a master plan out there ( Read more... )

It's in the paper again. Lets pay good teachers extra. Sound pretty good right? How about not. What is a good teacher? There are a million ways to define good, and what is good for one student is not good dfor another. In a perfeect world we would want to pay the good teachers more than those who put in little effort and do nothing beyond the ( Read more... )

You know what? Yeah, you guessed it, I'm sick of something else. Sick of hearing about how the Athens Olympics should be canceled for security reasons. Please! They're the Olympics! You don't cancel the Olympics. Canceling such an important and unifying event would be to hand the terrorists a huge victory. Any athletes or spectators who are ( Read more... )

Okay, I had a nice long, well-written rant about this that I wrote a while ago, but of course the computer froze just as I was finishing and I lost the whole thing. Anyway, I now feel compelled to recreate it ( Read more... )

I thought it was great. Moore did a great job ofcombining hilarious footage with tragic, sad footage. Both types were powerful. I'm thinking of seeing the film again. What I'm sick of is all of the controversy surrounding the film. I expected it, but it still bothers me. Sure the film was biased; what did people expect? It's not like the ( Read more... )