Ξ July 5th, 2009 | → Comments Off | ∇ Odd |
Apparently NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and FNC will be covering the Michael Jackson memorial live. The major networks will have their prime-time news anchors.
At least FOX News is keeping it to Shepard Smith (who tends to cover more pop-culture related news items anyways), and not involving their main news personalities. On second thought, if Sean Hannity were there, it would make for interesting viewing. And I can just imagine Charles Krauthammer diagnosing all the personality disorders on display . . .
Ξ July 2nd, 2009 | → Comments Off | ∇ Intellectual |
From Michael Leeden:
Long before the modern rationalizations for the “benign” nanny state, Confucius had given his own vision of the perfectly ordered pyramid with the emperor at the top, talking to God, and most of the rest of us at the bottom, lucky for the privilege to talk to their dog.
The bulk of human experience is tyranny, whereas liberty is the ultimate unprobability, a.k.a., America. Government of the people, for the people, by the people cannot survive unless the people has enough intestinal fortitude to make it work.
That reminds me of something J. Rufus Fears said about the American Revolution in his course on the History of Freedom. People rebel for many reasons – oppression, religion, power. The colonies were the least oppressed, most religiously tolerant, independent people on Earth (at least by the standards of the day). In fact, that’s one of the criticisms of the Revolution – both then and now – that the colonists were ungrateful for all the advantages they had. But the leaders of the Revolution weren’t people with nothing to lose – they were wealthy, those with everything to lose. And they were going up against Britain, which had just trounced France in the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). And if they lost, they would suffer the fate of traitors.
A people, with all the advantages in the world, going up against the most powerful nation in the world, risking everything, with the odds stacked against them. And doing it all on principle. The American Revolution was the most idealistic in history.
And it succeeded.
Happy Independence Day.
Ξ July 1st, 2009 | → Comments Off | ∇ Games |
In the name of fighting piracy, Blizzard has removed LAN play from Starcraft II. Great.
