The Besieged Ground of Safe Spaces
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Evaluating the DMV: A New Wisconsinite’s Observations of his Adopted Home State
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A New Wisconsinite’s Observations of his Adopted Home State.
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Vaccines
Whenever anyone says they are anti-vaccination the first image I think of is this one:
The photo is reductionist, of course, but it’s also powerful. Powerful because it encapsulates the current anti-vaccine debate: Vaccines cure and prevent deadly and debilitating diseases and yet are viewed as an olde tymey relic. For pro-vaccine advocates vaccination’s benefits are established history and to argue otherwise is as incomprehensible as arguing against the Holocaust. For anti-vaccine advocates there’s a mountain of “evidence” and the wisdom of mothers and fathers with first-hand “experience” and “logical” caution.
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The photo is reductionist, of course, but it’s also powerful. Powerful because it encapsulates the current anti-vaccine debate: Vaccines cure and prevent deadly and debilitating diseases and yet are viewed as an olde tymey relic. For pro-vaccine advocates vaccination’s benefits are established history and to argue otherwise is as incomprehensible as arguing against the Holocaust. For anti-vaccine advocates there’s a mountain of “evidence” and the wisdom of mothers and fathers with first-hand “experience” and “logical” caution.
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Skyfall as Art
Skyfall, the 23rd official Bond Film, has opened to the typical Bond fanfare, but also continues the attempt of the Daniel Craig era to create serious film-as-art. While Skyfall’s predecessors Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace took the serious rather than campy route as well, Skyfall surpasses them as art. This is largely because of of an Academy Award winning Director – Sam Mendes – and another star laden cast, but mostly Skyfall achieves this status because it prominently features and uses artwork to advance the plot. Paintings, the oldest visual medium, are used to heroic effect in Skyfall.
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Additions
Don't let Faux Klingons control the White House.
Sobering Quotation of the Day:
“As long as Americans persist in viewing [the Middle East] as another Americas and don’t recognize it as unique culture, Americans will be fated to misunderstand this area.”
- George McCellan, U.S. Civil War General
My Job
Truth Really Is
Every now and then Rick Moranis comes out of his Canadian seclusion and shares his funniness with the world. This installment is brought to you by the New York Times. My Days Are Numbered.
What I want for Christmas
Video Binge
It started out as a little sip. Honest. Just this clip of the outgoing (F*** Yeah!) Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works James Inhofe (R-OK) being Not-OK in regards to the environment and God. Did Michelle Bachman get to him?
Then came the secret Desire I have to do the voice for movie trailers. Consequently, I love Don LaFontaine. And for a long time I thought he was the only one. Nope, he's just The Godfather. Here's...
Salivating over the vocal power in that limo got me thinking about my favorite Latino comic Pablo Fransisco. Pablo's a sound effects guru whose comedy is manically hilarious. First, his bit on...
The 6th degree separating LaFontaine from Fransisco is not Corsica but rather this bit on...
Pumped up on delusions of grandeur, I soon believed I could stack dice in a cup just like this guy.
Thankfully, I was brought back to Earth by the heroics of a father and son.
Then came the secret Desire I have to do the voice for movie trailers. Consequently, I love Don LaFontaine. And for a long time I thought he was the only one. Nope, he's just The Godfather. Here's...
5 of the Best:
Salivating over the vocal power in that limo got me thinking about my favorite Latino comic Pablo Fransisco. Pablo's a sound effects guru whose comedy is manically hilarious. First, his bit on...
Mexican Music:
The 6th degree separating LaFontaine from Fransisco is not Corsica but rather this bit on...
The Movie Trailer Guy:
Pumped up on delusions of grandeur, I soon believed I could stack dice in a cup just like this guy.
Thankfully, I was brought back to Earth by the heroics of a father and son.
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Holy crap. Wednesday it hit 70 degrees and this morning there is a 1/4" of snow on the ground. I love it.
I feel like I've been living a perpetual party. Patti (whom I was working with) won re-election (and by a larger margin than last election); the DFL took the MN House; made gains in the MN Senate; Dems won the U.S. House, then the Senate; Rumsfeld resigns; Walz beats Gutknecht -- god, Thanksgiving is going to be a major letdown.
The White House has a private movie theater, so in keeping up with the Joneses (whom have yet to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave) cinephiles with money to burn have been building there own private theaters. And boy do I want "Techie Wonderland".
Marriage. A nice wedge issue for the cynical, self-serving and righteous. And I love b****-slapping the righteous. So peruse...
1. How non-marital intimate relationships will save marriage
2. Mexico approving civil unions
And Dave Eggers has a new book out. I missed his last one too. That makes me sadder than you'd think.
I feel like I've been living a perpetual party. Patti (whom I was working with) won re-election (and by a larger margin than last election); the DFL took the MN House; made gains in the MN Senate; Dems won the U.S. House, then the Senate; Rumsfeld resigns; Walz beats Gutknecht -- god, Thanksgiving is going to be a major letdown.
The White House has a private movie theater, so in keeping up with the Joneses (whom have yet to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave) cinephiles with money to burn have been building there own private theaters. And boy do I want "Techie Wonderland".
Marriage. A nice wedge issue for the cynical, self-serving and righteous. And I love b****-slapping the righteous. So peruse...
1. How non-marital intimate relationships will save marriage
2. Mexico approving civil unions
And Dave Eggers has a new book out. I missed his last one too. That makes me sadder than you'd think.