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Welcome to the Egads! Poll. We’re still looking for a utility that will add a poll to the blog, but for now, please follow the VOTE HERE link to weigh in.
TODAY’S POLL QUESTION: Maine, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire. Which of the selected states in this poll is most likely to change color in the 2008 presidential election?
Categories: 2008 · Politics · Think about it · blue state · elections · opinion poll · red state
Bill Moyers Journal, Moyer’s new PBS show, launched tonight with a brilliant report about how journalism fell down on the job during the Bush administration’s propaganda build up to invade Iraq. Check out the Web site for info – blog, tv listings, podcasts, live onlines.
Categories: Bill Moyers · Documentary · Journalism · Media · PBS · Politics · Read it · Think about it · Watch it
He loves you, he loves you not…a study published in the March 20 of Current Biology, suggests the proof is in the direction a dog’s tail wages. This article from the New York Times tells all.
Categories: Read it · dogs · love · science · tail-wagging
Happy Earth Day!
In honor of the occasion and in the name of doing its part, this week, instead of issuing a print addition, The Week Magazine is offered online – the complete content (CLICK HERE). Do yourself a favor – include taking a gander as part of your own E.D. Week celebration.
Categories: Earth Day · Environment · Green · Journalism · Read it · The Week · Think about it
It’s time for the next Free-For-All: mass murder; Alex Baldwin rant outed; Blue Angel crash; the continuing debacle in Iraq; and defending yourself against committees and administrators. After this week, we’re going to need to discuss and decompress for a long time…
What are your thoughts? What else is on your mind?
Categories: Uncategorized
“Today’s decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent to the Supreme Court 5-4 decision to uphold a ban on partial birth today. As reported in the Washington Post, “it was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how – not whether – to perform an abortion.”
Categories: abortion rights · laws · supreme court decision · women's rights
After this week’s horrific shooting in Virginia, it’s a good time to review many factors behind what might have contributed to the situation.
One factor is access to guns – how easy is it to buy a gun in Virginia or in any state? An Egads! source has supplied a useful site from the Brady Campaign. It tracks state gun control laws. Click here for Virginia info. Navigate from there for other state stats.
Categories: Think about it · brady campaign · gun control · laws · shooting · virginia tech
This week the media and the listening public woke up for a moment to say they were mad as hell and they weren’t going to take it anymore…at least, from one obscene voice, after he’d been taking the same abusive language and thought to the bank for the last 15 years.
Tip of the iceberg comes to mind. Are we going to feel that we’ve put the fire out on this vitriolic kind of offensive language, or are we going to go on a witch hunt to route out all forms of bigotry and prejudice in everyday life?
Freedom of speech comes to mind. Censuring by commerce reflects the will of the people, without outlawing or banning specific rhetoric.
I think the answer lies in staying awake and thinking. Let’s start thinking again. When we think, we can create the society we want to live in. We can say, “Hey, this guy’s views are racist and mysogonistic and we don’t want to support him.” However, if we opt to give away our voice to the government, outlawing certain thoughts and parts of speech, we’ll go back to sleep and wake up again when the things we do believe in are being banned and restricted.
We need to think in the present and for the future. If we had been better thinkers, we might not be in Iraq now. We might have a different president now. We might have more legitimate news sources (at the expense of not seeing under Brittany Spear’s dress or hearing about the private emissions of Anna Nicole’s sperm donors. That’s not true – there will always be outlets for celebrity eavesdropping. But we could also fight for more information that’s higher evolved on the intelligence scale.) And the lack of listeners might have forced Don Imus out of a job a decade ago.
Maybe booster buttons would help: I’m a Member of the Concious Brain Club.
So…What do you think?
Categories: Awakening · Don Imus · Media · Think about it · Thought
