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[...] edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
There once was some right-wing tongue wagging
About how their fortunes were flagging.
With the culture war’s loss
And Obama the boss
They found a new comfort: Teabagging.
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[...]Earlier this hour, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration posted the following to Twitter: “Stephen Colbert has astronaut Suni Williams listed as a guest next week. I wonder why?”
That would fit NASA’s stated timeline for announcing its decision on the naming of ISS Node 3, and whether or [...]
I’ve made this prediction elsewhere prior to the confirmation that the thirteenth episode of Dolhouse will not air, but I want to make it again here, and then make one further comment. Given that the DVD set is released on July 28, immediately after Comic-Con, I suspect that “Epitaph One” [...]
It’s fatal, for me, because not only is it glaringly obvious, it’s completely indefensible. Based on everything that’s come before, if Broyles were to call the team to a children’s hospital and reveal to them a completely hairless child, what would have happened is this: Broyles would have turned to [...]
Twilight. I’m confused.
by Channing Frye
I’m just a guy venting. It’s a wildly famous book and series, but all I want to know is what am I missing? Did Bella watch too many episodes of Blade or what? Please, let me know. I’m trying to understand why we [...]
10 Creation Vacations
by Mike Matthews and Pam S. Sheppard
Some Christians spend months and months finalizing details about where to stay and what to eat, but they never give a thought to their biblical worldview. When visiting zoos, museums, and parks, they often don’t even notice the unbiblical, [...]
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
The absence of triumphalism and religious certainty in the Second Inaugural merits particular notice in view of the political rhetoric, combining religion and the doctrine of American exceptionalism, that surrounds and attempts to sanctify America’s current military actions. As White [...]
Exactly why did I (and others, at my request) post a Twitter update today consisting of those words, addressed to Mike Doughty? Because this was April Fools’ Day, and for no particular reason at all I felt like summoning a ghost from the past.
[...] Online Journalists Optimistic About Revenue and Technology, Concerned About Changing Values
by Project for Excellence in Journalism
When it came to the impact of the Internet on values, the most cited change was a loosening of standards and more carelessness in online news gathering.
Those journalists surveyed, who come largely [...]
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
… The real cause of America’s fratricidal conflict, many religious leaders asserted, was the failure of the founders to enshrine God in the Constitution. The war was nothing more — or less — than the fulfillment of the Reverend John [...]
Social Media for Media People 101
by Lynn Siprelle
If you’re uncomfortable in social media environments like Twitter and Facebook, DON’T BOTHER. You will end up looking ridiculous. If you post only once a week, or even only once a day, DON’T BOTHER. If you post nothing but station [...]
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
… The connection between the nineteenth-century women’s movement and the abolitionist movement is well known, but the relation between both movements and anticlericalism has received much less attention from historians. Yet, the moral authority of churches — their claim to [...]
Would you trust a Hollywood gossip rag’s article on Twitter and celebrities when it describes Greg Grunberg as an “early adopter”? Or how about if it contains a perfectly bizarre and entirely backwards idea of what “getting it” means?
The smarter celebrities are getting it, making their Twitter identities [...]
Against my better judgment I am listening to the audio stream of the Texas Board of Education hearing on introducing a “strengths and weaknesses” standard into how the state teaches evolutionary theory.
It’s an entirely stupid debate, because scientific discipline inherently includes discussing and debating the strengths and weaknesses of [...]
Having forced myself to wait the distance of a few days to be certain, I now can safely say that I have one lingering problem with the series finale of Battlestar Galactica: The coda.
For a show that long (and rightfully) has prided itself on presenting issue mashups which insist that [...]
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[...]Who is Doug Meehan? Why, he’s Boston’s first full-time television helicopter reporter who now also positions himself to give you the “inside” scoop from Hollywood for Boston’s FOX 25.
Why do we care who Doug Meehan is, exactly? And just what is it, exactly, that makes him such the [...]
IMDb to Add Web Series Category, So What’s a Web Series?
by Marc Hustvedt
Getting listed in the database, which has become the entertainment industry’s de-facto crediting service, espouses a degree of validity on a project and its creators. The issue has been building up steam in the web television [...]
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[...]The Coming Evangelical Collapse
by Michael Spencer
We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
Within two [...]
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
by Clay Shirky
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model [...]
Given the approach of this Friday’s rally in support of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, take a look back at the results of my own use of the Library’s resources. First, there’s Revisiting the Great Light Way, in which I pulled together everything I’d learned about [...]
Galatea 2.2: A Novel
by Richard Powers
For a while, I felt a low-grade thrill at being alive in the moment when this unprecedented thing congealed. But after weeks of jetsetting around the hypermap, I began to see the web as just the latest term in an ancient polynomial [...]
Although I am obsessively avoiding spoilers for Dollhouse, last night I broke down and plunged into reading the script that’s circulating purporting to be that for The Cabin In The Woods, the horror movie from Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard which is scheduled to begin filming in British Columbia [...]
The Mysteries of Twin Peaks: Thoughts, Ruminations, and Research
by Christopher Frankonis
Just after midnight on November 11, 1990, I wrote the following in my journal: “Tonight I am going to try to dream of BOB. I am going to try to let my unconscious mind piece together information and [...]
The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America
by Lauri Lebo
After trial each day, I’d go back to the York Daily Record newsroom and write a story for the next day. This particular night I wrote as my lede, “One of intelligent [...]
Philippine locations enhance this melodrama centering on a women’s rehabilitation compound.
Pam Grier wearing a slinky red dress into women’s prison. Margaret Markov being eyed by a guard, as another guard calls out, “Okay, strip ‘em and get ‘em wet!” “If she digs you, things in here can be a Hell of a [...]Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
It is one of the greatest unresolved paradoxes of American history that religion has come to occupy such an important place in the communal psyche and public life of a nation founded on the separation of church and state. The [...]
In the event someone actually requires the definition, the phrase “popping the cherry” (at least according to Urban Dictionary) means one of two decidely-related things.
Most generally, it simply means the process of losing one’s virginity. More graphically, however, it can refer to the circumstance (although I’ve applied some copy [...]
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