I should be spending my evening thinking about just what in the hell I’m going to do at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair, but I can’t stop reading about last night’s horrific events in Colorado. Predictably, a lot of people, like our friend Roger Ebert, are taking the opportunity to argue that more meaningful gun control […]
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Tying to make sense of last night’s mass murder in Colorado
Posted in Other, Shadow Art Fair Also tagged AceRock, Amok, Batman, Christians under attack, Colorado, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, gun violence, How The Mind Works, insanity, killing, Louie Gohmert, Malay, Marilyn Manson, mental illness, National Institutes of Mental Health, Papua New Guinea, Roger Ebert, Steven Pinker 17 Comments
Is the death of Amy Winehouse really newsworthy?
While I feel terrible that Amy Winehouse has passed, and sickened by the fact that her death is destined to become a punchline on talk radio, the really terrible thing, I think, is that it’s going to dominate news around the world for the coming days, bumping the mass murder in Norway, and the current […]
The real threat, and the art of distraction
As much as 2.52 million gallons of crude oil may be gushing into the Gulf each day, and, despite the claims of global climate change deniers, 2010 is shaping up to be the hottest year in recorded history. We are literally destroying our planet. The polar ice caps are melting, sea life is dying, species […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged BP, distraction, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Gulf of Mexico, Obama, Obama's socialist agenda, oil, oil spill, tea party 18 Comments