They’re mightily bummed out down at the village square. Seems that work for town criers is vanishing, and hardly anyone wants to post notices in the square anymore.
Then again, since most of the peasants moved to the ‘burbs and got broadband, hardly anyone hangs out in the village square anymore.
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Having lost two consecutive debates, Chris Hedges resorts to a book to flog his new meme, atheism = suburban mutation.
Interesting. I’ll let you know when I figure out where this farm kid moved to the big city (but never lived in the ‘burbs) fits into Hedges’ worldview. And, like most of you, I’m guessing I don’t fit in at all.
Hedges is a good guy, but on this one topic he’s really full of god, if you know what I mean.
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There are no stupid questions. Only stupid journalists.
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City Pages won eleven SPJ awards this year. Three of the awards went to writers now working for MinnPost and Minnesota Monitor.
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They win awards, and then they go on vacation. Bush’s impact on our cultural will be with us for a long, long time.
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David Brauer factchecks darlin’ Katie in the aftermath of the Mn Dept of Ed investigation. Meanwhile, Mistress Kersten is chortling over efforts to remove her from the newsroom. [Note to KK: don't worry about those who disparage you as "the poorest excuse for a journalist since" humankind learned how to fling poo. Serious lefty bloggers all know you're not a journalist by training or inclination, just a hack. And, as a hack, you do alright.]
Dearie, Avista isn’t on that über alles kick anymore. A little resume updating might be in order — remember, the Swiss are sticklers for putting rightwing pigs pegs into rightwing holes, and not into their newspapers.
[More factchecking from Andy Birkey, and still more from Bob Collins.]
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Mike Fairbourne, a local tv weather chick, calls global warming science squishy.
I think it has something to do with thinking that reading the weather daily actually giving you a clue, when all it proves is that you know how to read.
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Locally, a Vietnamese-American pot-growing ring has been indicted. This is a big deal: do they get white people’s drug law justice, or n-word justice? The former means a grueling stint in rehab, the latter a cell at one of our comfy state prisons where anal rape isn’t anywhere near as common as in episodes of Oz (unless you’re a smaller guy…).
(Yes, we do seem to have a surplus of n-words nowadays.)
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AK for O-Veep? Well, next to Kathleen Sebelius, she is the worst speaker of all the prominent Democratic women I know of. And surely our nation is just dying to hear more about “jugs o’ fun.”
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as someone who grew up in the suburbs, let me tall ya – it’s nto a matter of atheism so much as it is indifference. Suburbanites are bombarded with advertisements and sales-pitches from waking until shortly after they fall asleep, and Religion, as it presents itself in a suburban environment, is naught but a sales-pitch for a particular kind of lifestyle that may require the customer to give up certain things they enjoy, or do things they don’t enjoy, so it really doesn’t go over well.
of course, that’s because most of the religion-vendors in the area are Jehovah’s witnesses. the problem is that if there IS a religion that is compatible with a life of suburban comfort (like perhaps the Church of the SubGenius), few suburban dwellers know of it and those who do aren’t sharing with their neighbors.