As if I needed another reason to love NPR!
This video was used as an intro to NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller’s presentation at this year’s D: All Things Digital conference. It’s a parody of current internet trends and memes, and, OMG, it’s hilarious: “Auto-Tuned Things Considered”! (I want Robert Siegel to release an album!) Peter Sagal using ChatRoulette! (“Hi, I’m Peter Sagal. [...]
Benedict, I’m playing the world’s saddest song on the world’s smallest violin for you
From The Guardian today: “Pope Benedict silences child abuse conspiracy theorists on Portugal visit”, subtitled “Catholic church takes sole responsibility for scandal.” The article begins with: The pope admitted today that the Catholic church was entirely responsible for the child abuse scandal that has spread across Europe… Sounds promising, right? But: In his most strongly [...]
If Boobquake is your kind of thing, then, by all means, enjoy it. But don’t stop there.
It can sometimes be very difficult to predict the potential reactions to and the possible outcomes of any political statement and/or consciousness-raising effort one undertakes, however well-intentioned it is. This is especially true when the statement and/or effort is started online. Today, via Facebook and/or Twitter (among others), anything can “go viral” within minutes and [...]
The Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must not be allowed to hide behind the First Amendment (written in September 2009)
(This is a piece that I wrote in September 2009, for another site. It discusses clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, specifically focusing on one Connecticut diocese and the abuse and cover-up that went on there. It’s quite long, so I’ll put the majority of it behind a cut.) Accusations, revelations, lawsuits, legal battles, [...]
Francis Collins. Ugh. (The Sequel)
Because of the health care bill’s passage (again, YAY!), Francis “Waterfall Jesus” Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has popped up in the media this week. Here’s a question from an interview with Collins on The Washington Post‘s site: Have the people at the NIH adjusted to having a believer in their midst? [...]
Sensual. Powerful. Biden.
As some of you know, I totally love Joe Biden. He’s smart, foxy, and (both intentionally and unintentionally) hilarious. He’s the perfect combination of a skilled and principled statesman and a debonair (but gaffe-prone) international playboy of mystery. In other words, he’s the lovechild of The Rat Pack and Harry Truman. I often emit girlish [...]
Shalit Haiku!
On a lighter note: Gene Shalit, film critic for The Today Show, (among other things) is hilariously awesome. He brings so many lolz to the world with, as Wiki puts it: his frequent use of puns, his oversized handlebar moustache, and [...] colorful bowties. And then there’s Muppet Gene Shalit!: Anyway! On Friday, I was [...]
Dear local newspaper: please step up your game. Thanks.
I don’t subscribe to The Spokesman-Review, my city’s newspaper, but I sometimes read parts of it online or flip through it when I’m at my parents’ house. Long ago, I learned that reading the Letters page will almost certainly make me frustrated, to put it mildly. Although it’s only a medium-sized city’s local newspaper, I [...]
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