Apr 30 2009
This is a documentary on the history of psychoanalysis in mass media. Have a look.
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Apr 30 2009
From The Wall Street Journal blog - April 28, 2009: An airplane approached Sydney Airport Tuesday. Investors fled the industry Monday on worries about lessening travel due to a possible swine flu pandemic, reminiscent of the 2003 SARS outbreak. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
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Apr 29 2009
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“Singer Susan Boyle, our latest instant celebrity, reminds me of any number of singers I conducted in amateur renditions of the easier Schubert or Haydn masses, or the sort of matron who sings “Katti-Shaw” or “Buttercup” in the local Gilbert and Sullivan production. Musical talent springs up like grass, and engaging voices are a dollar a dozen. That Boyle has come to embody the triumph of ordinary people over obscurity, complete with invitations to appear on Oprah and Larry King, is disheartening. The popular audience in the West likes to validate its own mediocrity, and crowns stars-for-a-day.” “Spengler” for the Asia Times April 21, 2009
Is Spengler right? Does the U.S. praise mediocrity. Do the parading America Idol “losers” really think that anybody can be a star? After years of being all about looks, Hollywood embraces a person like karaoke lover William Hung got a record deal from his being tone deaf. Paris Hilton became famous from inheriting millions of dollars. Yes today, reality TV relishes the opposite extreme with shows like VH1 Flavor of Love starring a naturally and almost nutritiously inebriated guy who thinks wearing a top hat and a cartoonishly ponderous clock (which truthfully does not tell time at all) to church is somehow not ostentatious and hemakes a go at “love” with the most uncouth, socially inept, vapid and vacant woman to walk the earth whose most remembered words will likely be, “Bitch, I’ll kill you!” And what is to be said of the relentlessly showcased cavalcade-like fleet of willing participants in eating raw goat testicles on NBC’s Fear Factor? This apparently is part of the latest amendment to the ever-wanted and seemingly now ever-closer American Dream. Do nothing great. Look interesting doing it. Get famous. But after all this, Susan Boyle possesses something else, something which is rarely given a spotlight - talent… despite one’s not looking the part.
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Apr 29 2009
What’s the real story with Afghanistan? Judge for yourself and leave a comment.
Inside Afghanistan with Ben Anderson: Part 1
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Apr 27 2009
As many of you may know, this past Wednesday FOX News anchor Shepard Smith spoke out against Torture and a growing conservative base who believes torture techniques may have been helpful despite a counter argument that torture can and has elicited false confessions (as was the case with John McCain) and mental instability in its subjects, and the glaringly apparent hypocrisy of condoning torture when many conservatives readily identify themselves as Christians. They love their enemies like most of us… when it’s convenient.
(Watch Smith’s comments in this Huffington Post feature).
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Apr 27 2009
This image by Margret Bourke-White stands as one of the pivotal pieces of art capturing a divide between race and prosperity that existed 1937 America and may still exist today in the minds of many Americans. Despite the fact that unemployment had reached staggering overall lows of 25% during the Great Depression’s worst freefall, the photo forces the viewer to wonder if there are those unmentionable Black folks who will never see the cheerfully advertised “world’s highest standard of living” by their respective standards of lifetime.
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Apr 24 2009
The last week in April in is National Karaoke Week in the United States
Source: MSNBC.com
In 2003, amiable amateur William Hung entered the American Idol spotlight with his spirited and equally awful rendition of Ricky Martin’s hit “She Bangs.” He politeness and positivity somehow won over America and in 2004 he scored a recording contract with Koch Records and a Billboard Top 40 album cheekily titled Inspiration. All this came from a UC Berkley Civil Engineering student who just wanted to have fun like most every karaoke patron.
(Read Hung’s ARTISTdirect bio).
Wax and bang! 
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Apr 22 2009
Bush does stand-up. Jon Stewart prepares America for Socialism. AAAAHHHHHHHHH!
For Tuesday, April 21, 2009
(2007)
For Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Apr 20 2009
A brief article from the Christian Science Monitor today reports on behalf of the New York Times that two convicted terrorists were waterboarded 266 times. The two men, Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, (Mohamed has confessed to planning the September 11, 2001, attacks as well as personally beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl) had endured 83, and 183 waterboardings respectively according to CIA reports dated from 2002 and 2005. The method which simulates the drowning of the suspect by tying him down pouring water over his face repeatedly has been the subject of much media scrutiny over the past several years.
In light of this data, one may wonder if the motivation and alibi of simple intelligence gathering will suffice. Clearly on a strictly human and visceral level, pure vengeance is not an illogical motive for the methods used to bring justice to the atrocities of which these men were convicted. Yet the sheer number of occurrences may be cause for alarm if only for the chance that the excesses performed might have caused the subjects to either lie or to become mentally unfit for questioning in any regard at all - let alone in acts so deplorable as terrorism and beheading.
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Apr 20 2009
The Denver Post remembers the Tragedy at Colorado’s Columbine High School on this day Ten years ago. May we never forget.
Warning: The slides you are about are explicit. Discretion is advised.
(View slides).
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