Looking back.
I just stumbled across my original blog. Apparently there is no easy way to move posts from an old blog to a new one, but I have moved them over one by one. And they’re here, but burried deep within.…
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Earth to Pat Robertson.
Did he really just say we should go ahead and assasinate President Chavez if we’re already planning on it? What an idiot!!! And I say that in the most loving, caring way possible. Somebody needs to yank the plug from…
Cornel West.
Cornel West addressed a number of issues that put a nice bookend on my first journal entry regarding religion and Christianity. West said, “we need to talk publicly about the courage to love…that’s what I love about the black movement.”…
Free speech and the "Leftist Orthodoxy".
In Social Movements today we discussed social movements on campuses and free speech. Two interesting conversations happened: A few weeks ago a campus-wide protest against the university president happened, because of a decision he was about to make regarding the…
News Media.
Washington Post? Sure, Michael Jackson’s endless trial does not effect the general public. But bringing up the Atlanta courthouse shooting as an example of bad media is just wrong. For nearly 24 hours after his jailbreak, Brian Nichols eluded police…
Media and War.
The subject of the war in Iraq is intriguing for me because of personal relationships I have connecting my experiences to Iraq. While I’ve never been there, I have a good friend who was forced to leave Iraq about 5…