I finally watched Religulous tonight and I’m glad I didn’t go to watch it in the theatres. As much as I like Bill Maher and his show on HBO, I found this movie lacking any kind of depth. I’ve watched him do stand-up in Philadelphia and this movie reminded me a little too much of [...]
It just struck me how important branding is and how well the Obama administration has used it in the brief weeks since Jan 20th. The $700 million “bailout” negotiated by the Bush controlled white house was given a negative connotation right from the beginning simply because the media and politicians very quickly called it a [...]
Jesus Camp: I watched this documentry last night. I’m writing these thoughts without reading any other reviews of the movie, save the snippets that come up on the Netflix website and the movie’s Wikipedia site that I pulled up to find the director’s name, etc. I’d seen trailers for the movie some years ago, but [...]
According to a blog post on USAToday, the US Congress is debating a bill that would require call-center workers in foreign countries to disclose the country that they are from. This will likely gouge this bill under a “right-to-know” argument. I’ve heard many complaints about people not being able to understand foreign call-center workers and [...]
Now they want to monitor college students. I can see absolutely no good coming out of this. And as a side note, apparently the big push is coming from Republicans.
IQ and the American Voter
Education and the American voter
Money and the American voter
Can an allusion of free press exist in a climate of extreme political propaganda? Apparently so. And successfully, if the propaganda is controlled by market interests and not political ones. Most of the information in this ramble is gleaned from here but the feelings and emotions are all personal.
I think the term Big Brother is [...]