Filed under: Art, Booya!!!, Fred Thompson, Uncategorized
23/05/2007 • 21:59 3
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Well, were having theme issues once again. I ask that you please be patient while we work throught this. There is a new design and upgrade in the works. We are just not any where near the release of that new and improved setup just yet. So in the mean time, just kick back, drink your favorite beverage and relax a bit. Enjoy the new and temporary view.
Thanks Irate_Nate
Filed under: 411, Art, Crime, Free Speech, Global Warming, Holiday, Humor, Inconvenient Idiot, News, Uncategorized, Video
21/05/2007 • 09:55 0
Monday Madness
15/05/2007 • 13:49 0
Some Topics I Can Barely Read About Nowadays – i.e. Blogging vs. the MSM
The article I started and refused to finish
OK – so book reviewers online are being blamed for budget cuts at newspapers that affect more established critics. The article does a great job pointing out one thing: a lot of those literary bloggers are getting published in mainstream publications.
I honestly don’t know how much I like that. I’m more radical about the potential of the Internet than most: if the conspiracy theories and the shouting can stop, this place could easily give every American a full liberal arts education without anyone even realizing it. What drives the conspiracy theory here and much of the shouting is the “I know everything” syndrome, which makes some bloggers that can barely sign their checks with little more than an “X” think they’re the next Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart.
But another thing that has to go is the idea that mainstream things constitute some kind of objective standard we should all worship. I mean, seriously: some writers for mainstream publications are very, very good. Carlin Romano, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Steyn, Rob Long, Matt Labash – I mean, I haven’t seen many bloggers come close to their quality even when attempting something similar. The key is that most journalists and established writers don’t reach that level themselves, though!
The MSM is all flash. Glossy headlines and pretty colors and an official look.
Where the potential of the Internet lies is in bringing back to all of us – myself included – a higher and stronger notion of standard.
To that end, I’m kinda sympathetic to the literary critics losing their jobs. They’re probably some of the more thoughtful people at their media outlets, and probably do have a higher sense of standard than most bloggers.
I just hope they have the sense to blog and turn on the media that committed to being a business ahead of providing quality content. It saw them as disposable because of the bottom line, but as we’re learning nowadays, there’s no such thing as a debate that’s too civil, or an audience that is too cultivated. Aristotle, in defining political rule, talks about it being the condition where one can rule and be ruled in turn – that’s an equality born from knowledge, not one based on a simple declaration.
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Filed under: Art
10/05/2007 • 00:57 1
Breaking Things
Ok so we will be under massive reconstruction starting.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NOW!! until…………..further notice.
Filed under: 411, Art, Humor, News, Uncategorized
15/04/2007 • 07:21 1
Artist opens ‘Christ Killa’ exhibit
Invites audience to shoot hordes of ‘homicidal Jesus’ figures
A Los Angeles artist opened an exhibit this week called “Christ Killa” in which the audience is invited to participate in a video game and shoot hordes of “homicidal Jesus Christs.”
Digital and video artist Eric Medine describes his work – a video game linked to projectors and TV monitors – as the “ultimate arbitration between politics and Christianity,” notes bloggers Sondra K and Michelle Malkin.
The game landscape “is filled with Googled images of Christian propaganda posters, religious shrines such as St. Peter’s in Rome, and clichéd representations of Christ who constantly mumbles messages of tolerance and compassion,” says a news release.
Read more here: worldnetdaily.com
Filed under: Art, Christian, Free Speech, Jesus, liberal agenda, Marxism, News, Uncategorized
