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Jon Stewart – We Need A Public Option

Jon Stewart demonstrates again why the Daily Show garners more Emmy wins than the other shows in their category.  The writing is brilliant and Stewart pulls off the theatrics.   The health care debate happening in our Congress has degenerated into a lame excuse for legislative action. Polls show that 65% of the population want a […]

1Oct2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Jon Stewart: The Fiber in Your Media Diet

There are some things that we, as a culture, cannot do without. Oil. Television. Wal-Mart. Cell Phones. Media Punditry. In order for these things to exist, we have to continually evaluate them and to find ways of curbing our dependence on them. Otherwise, we become slaves to our devices. Oil, for instance, needs investigation into […]

17Apr2008 | | Comments Off on Jon Stewart: The Fiber in Your Media Diet | Continued
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Blogging – Breaking Rules of Journalism

Son, We are in a time in history of rapid change; and some folks don’t like it. They don’t like it because change often requires challenging, if not breaking, established rules and protocols. Bloggers are struggling to get the respect of the professional journalist community. I think that is a mistake. I am not interested […]

13Oct2007 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Jim Wallis at the University of Iowa

Dad, My wife and I are attending a lecture by Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and author of the blog God’s Politics. He is having a discussion forum at the University of Iowa.  I am pretty excited to hear him speak, having read much of his stuff from Sojourners and read parts of his […]

13Sep2007 | | Comments Off on Jim Wallis at the University of Iowa | Continued