Class, Race, Facebook & MySpace

  Facebook or MySpace?

  If you’re going to be cool, you must choose wisely.

  Read the scholarly paper here.

 

 

 

Class, Race, Facebook & MySpace

  Facebook or MySpace?

  If you’re going to be cool, you must choose wisely.

  Read the scholarly paper here.

 

 

 

Class, Race, Facebook & MySpace

  Facebook or MySpace?

  If you’re going to be cool, you must choose wisely.

  Read the scholarly paper here.

 

 

 

Class, Race, Facebook & MySpace

  Facebook or MySpace?

  If you’re going to be cool, you must choose wisely.

  Read the scholarly paper here.

 

 

 

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader’s Baby Sister?

   Ok, I’m going to burn my MENSA certificate.  (Yes, it’s true, blog fans–I was once a member of MENSA, but voluntarily relinquished my membership when I hit 50 and started getting sort of stupid…)

   This toddler has been given membership in the organization: 

  “Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French.

  “But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed.

  “Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152….” [Rest of article]

 

Everyone We’re Fighting In Iraq Is Al-Qaeda Now…

   I thought that I was the only one who was noticing this happening with increasing frequency–even on CNN, the Anti-FOX:

  “One of the most astonishing instances of mindless, pro-government “reporting” yet:

   “It’s a curious thing that, over the past 10 – 12 days, the news from Iraq refers to the combatants there as “al-Qaida” fighters. When did that happen? 

  “Until a few days ago, the combatants in Iraq were “insurgents” or they were referred to as “Sunni” or “Shia’a” fighters in the Iraq Civil War. Suddenly, without evidence, without proof, without any semblance of fact, the US military command is referring to these combatants as “al-Qaida”.

  “Welcome to the latest in Iraq propaganda.

  “That the Bush administration, and specifically its military commanders, decided to begin using the term “Al Qaeda” to designate “anyone and everyone we fight against or kill in Iraq” is obvious. All of a sudden, every time one of the top military commanders describes our latest operations or quantifies how many we killed, the enemy is referred to, almost exclusively now, as “Al Qaeda.”

  ”But what is even more notable is that the establishment press has followed right along, just as enthusiastically. I don’t think the New York Times has published a story about Iraq in the last two weeks without stating that we are killing “Al Qaeda fighters,” capturing “Al Qaeda leaders,” and every new operation is against “Al Qaeda.” [Rest of article]

 

ON THE LOT–Revisited

  I am still loving this show.

  Viewership has been disappointing, and the show immediately went to a once per week format (Tuesdays on FOX) rather than their planned two per week.

  Each week you see five or six short films.  Some of them are pretty good (a few of these folks are going to be famous some day), and some not so good.  But that’s what I like about this show:  The critics have very intelligent and helpful critiques about what makes a good film and what doesn’t work.

  If you have any interest in the film business (and it is still what I’d like to do when I grow up), this is a great teaching tool and quite entertaining.

  And again, the hostess is the best thing that CNN ever gave us:

 

 

  Adrianna Costa…sigh… 

 

 

 

 

Back Sunday

  Off for the weekend again.  I’m going to my college fraternity reunion.

  We had so much fun last summer, we’ve decided to do it again.

 

 

 

IF I DID IT, by Orenthal James Simpson–Book Review

  This book should have been titled WHY I DID IT.

  Mr. Simpson, who once famously promised to devote himself to finding his wife’s “real” killer, spends all of his time demonstrating what an awful person the mother of his children was–and what a wonderful person he is.  Nicole bad; OJ good.

  If you want to read of him expressing outrage at her murder, this won’t be the book.  This is his confession (although he mentions in passing that the murder scene itself is “hypothetical”).  Clearly someone helped ghost this book (OJ doesn’t “spel reel gud”, as you might recall if you ever saw his handwritten notes), but other than cleaning up the spelling, they didn’t contribute much “literary value”.  The book sounds like OJ’s usual rambling on in conversation.

  Most revealing of him is the transcript of his interrogation by police, if you haven’t already seen this.  If you are familiar at all with narcissistic personality disorder, this is a classic manifestation: There is no “I don’t recall” or “I genuinely don’t remember” about anything, and he has an answer for everything.  And, of course, outrage that he’s even being questioned.  Don’t they know who he is?!!

  Speaking of “outrage”, the book to read on the Simpson affair is OUTRAGE, by Vincent Bugliosi (the prosecutor who put Charles Manson away). 

  Read both of these books (IF I DID IT is floating around out there on the Internet), and there can be no doubt about who committed these crimes.

IF I DID IT, by Orenthal James Simpson–Book Review

  This book should have been titled WHY I DID IT.

  Mr. Simpson, who once famously promised to devote himself to finding his wife’s “real” killer, spends all of his time demonstrating what an awful person the mother of his children was–and what a wonderful person he is.  Nicole bad; OJ good.

  If you want to read of him expressing outrage at her murder, this won’t be the book.  This is his confession (although he mentions in passing that the murder scene itself is “hypothetical”).  Clearly someone helped ghost this book (OJ doesn’t “spel reel gud”, as you might recall if you ever saw his handwritten notes), but other than cleaning up the spelling, they didn’t contribute much “literary value”.  The book sounds like OJ’s usual rambling on in conversation.

  Most revealing of him is the transcript of his interrogation by police, if you haven’t already seen this.  If you are familiar at all with narcissistic personality disorder, this is a classic manifestation: There is no “I don’t recall” or “I genuinely don’t remember” about anything, and he has an answer for everything.  And, of course, outrage that he’s even being questioned.  Don’t they know who he is?!!

  Speaking of “outrage”, the book to read on the Simpson affair is OUTRAGE, by Vincent Bugliosi (the prosecutor who put Charles Manson away). 

  Read both of these books (IF I DID IT is floating around out there on the Internet), and there can be no doubt about who committed these crimes.