Tagged as: American liberalism, Cover It Live, Freddie De Boer, Scott H. Payne
by Scott H. Payne on June 11, 2009
Scott is a sometimes blogger and social media consultant/principal at East Side Media. In addition to writing at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Scott is also a founding member of Beams and Struts and a fellow at the Canadian Council for Democracy's blog the Commons. You can reach Scott via email and follow him on Twiter.
Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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Over on the Mindless Diversions site...
Our intrepid commenter A Teacher tells the story of how he published his NaNoWriMo book (and, of course, tells us how we can get a copy of it for ourselves). ( 1 comments)
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 7 comments)
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Good chat, guys. We’ll have to do it again.
My comments seemed to come in quite late for some reason. No big deal though.
To carry on in the comments here a bit.
Freddie, to say that Friedman’s demarcation of an information economy is just a buzzword that is only useful if you happen to be Thomas Friedman is akin to saying that “localist” is just a buzzword for dissident conservatives that only has any meaning if you happen to be Patrick Deneen or Rod Dreher or Daniel Larison.
Just because the term/concept doesn’t currently apply to or have a tonne of meaning for a broad swath of the population, doesn’t mean that it is devoid of value and ought to be swept under the rhetorical rug.
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