January 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
EJ Flavors (7)
MSNBC.com copyright 2010 (4)
TVO | Jesse Brown (2)
NPR (2)
American Public Media (2)
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MissyandErica.com →
[T]he gays get politicians to show up and get invited to parties. But nothing...
– Rick Jacobs, Courage Campaign Institute Chair, on the political power of gays and lesbians in the United States. From his liveblog of the Prop 8 Trial in California.
The ability to marry, to say I do, is a civil right. It demonstrates liberty....
– Harvard Professor Nancy Cott last week on the social meaning of marriage, as paraphrased by Courage Campaign Institute Chair Rick Jacobs while liveblogging Perry vs Schwarzenegger, aka the Prop 8 Trial.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
NPR (6)
American Public Media (5)
MSNBC.com copyright 2010 (4)
Commonwealth Club of California (3)
The White House (3)
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City (1967) (via misterjt)
If I fell for any tomfoolery, I’d long be gone by now. People are entitled...
– A note to those who show signs of homophobia
Doctors Without Borders on Tumblr →
misterjt:
What an excellent use of Tumblr.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
A Plus D (8)
MSNBC.com Copyright 2009 (5)
Commonwealth Club of California (4)
Titus Jones (4)
Dan Mei & Marc Johnce (4)
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The Case for 3-D
newsweek:
Though we’re not totally convinced that people are going to want to pay $2,000 to sit around their living rooms in goggles that make them look ridiculous, Summers makes a good argument for why 3-D TV is the future:
Why does anyone born after 1980 still pay for cable? That brings me to ESPN 3-D. For me, the only reason is sports. Mad Men, 30 Rock—if I canceled, I could still get...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Guster (27)
American Public Media (6)
Deborah Cox (4)
NPR (4)
Dope Sagittarius (3)
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White folks, we want you to talk about race, but only if a certain percentage of...
– Tami Winfrey-Harris, kind of kidding but kind of not, on having valuable discussions about race without people of color present.