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Monday, May 7th, 2007+ Faith Confronted, and Defended, Downtown. NY Times profiles Off-Off Broadway portrayals of faith, including a production by Generation Xcel volunteer Lear DeBessonet. HT: DJ + Embrace the Mess. Reuters reports: Raging hormones may explain teen moodiness. Hmm… Sounds familiar. + On evangelicals’ misuse of stats. (Although CT published this in January/February, it’s particularly timely [...]
Russel Simmons, gimme a break!
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007I have amazing respect for Russell Simmons and the impact his visionary embrace of hip hop has had on pop culture. But the latest from his Hip Hop Summit Action Network in the wake of the Imus scandal is ridiculous. He calls for rappers and producers to voluntarily bleep or remove the b- n- and [...]
Imus, Duke and a pornified culture
Friday, April 20th, 2007Yes, they are innocent: innocent of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Completely innocent of any crime. Undeserving of prosecution, injury, and innuendo. But they were not morally guiltless. After all, the team hired a stripper to perform for them; they (appeared to have) watched an act of live pornography. Unlike the innocent Rutgers women, the [...]
A Culture of Compassion
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007+ Thirty-two innocent victims. + Dozens wounded. + One crazed gunman. + Nearly eight years to the day after Columbine, another student at a different school commits the most heinous mass murder in US history. _____________________ On September 11, 2001, my father found himself at the scene of the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s [...]
Thoughts on Race, Rap, Duke, Imus, and Rev. Al
Thursday, April 12th, 2007First, the disclaimers. 1. I am not an Imus fan. 2. His comments last week were racist, sexist, and typical of his show. 3. He should have been fired a long time ago. Next, the ironies (hypocrisies). 1. MSNBC fired Imus the same day last year’s rush-to-judgment, race-fueled charges against the Duke lacrosse players were [...]
Who’s most responsible for true beauty?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007In January, I posted this tragic video for the first time. In light of Don Imus’ racist rant against the Rutgers women’s basketball team last week and the resulting controversy, I wonder who’s more responsible for the current climate that could cause black girls to express themselves as they do in that video? Are fools [...]
Steve Harvey introducing Jesus Christ
Sunday, March 18th, 2007HT: Mark Riddleebony boobshuge buttsteens flashingfuck dildogigantic nipplesnude russianyoung asiansthai gangbang Map
Justice: So easy a 5-year-old can do it
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Who doesn’t appreciate Geico’s cavemen commercials? Provided they don’t get overexposed (a very real possibility given the pilot t.v. episode they’re supposedly filming) they could become an advertising institution. Inspired by the cavemen and at the risk of offending my son Judah when he gets older, please indulge me for a second. Justice is so [...]
Hip Hop Horror
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007“The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture’s negative effect on society.” Article. See how lyrical content has evolved in rap (Explicit Lyrics): Old School P.E. — ‘Fight the Power’ New [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, February 26th, 2007+ Free to be a He-She. Manhattan Family Court Judge Sheldon Rand ruled this morning that the City must pay for a 21-year-old man’s sex change surgery because s/he had been in the care of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services as a teen. He called the surgery to remove one’s manhood “necessary” medical care [...]
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