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Glenn Beck and the War on Honor
I have failed you, dear readers. I promised to journey into the heart of Glennbeckistan for “Restoring Honor,” or “Whitestock,” or “The Greatest Affront to American Ideals in History,” or whatever you wanna call it. Instead, I ended up watching it on C-SPAN and monitoring real-time reactions on Twitter. The following was repurposed from my various [...]
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Savannah, GA: America’s Most Haunted City?
Posted by Chris Parizo on Tue, Aug 24, 2010
The American South stands in stark contrast to other parts of America. To a visiting Northerner or Westerner, the South can seem like a different country and culture altogether. Southern pride, as foreign to a Northerner as boiled peanuts and hush puppies, is reflected everywhere: shop windows, truck stops and front porches. Dixie devotion takes many [...]
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The Printing Press, Intellectual Property and Liberty
Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Jul 12, 2010
I’ve been pondering the printing press of late. Mostly what a revolutionary communications technology it was, much like the internet is today. For better or worse, both inventions allowed ordinary people to take part in an unprecedented degree of information exchange. And both have profound implications for freedom of expression, the marketplace and the commons. But [...]
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Anne Frank for 2010
Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Sun, Jul 11, 2010
I first read The Diary of Anne Frank in eighth grade. I suspect that’s the average age people read it in school, but I read it on my own. I’m not saying this to brag. I was simply a voracious reader who went to a truly awful junior high. During seventh and eighth grade, the [...]
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Drunk History: Nikola Tesla
Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Jun 20, 2010
Not sure how the hell I missed this when it first hit the tubes, but better late than never. Drunk History is a Funny or Die series in which a completely sauced Duncan Trussell walks us through civilization’s most significant moments. This clip is about that wizard of electromagnetism, Nikola Tesla, played here by John C. Reilly. [...]
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Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 29, 2010
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