Posts Tagged ‘Television’
The Funny, the Serious and the Social: A Reflection from the Leno/Conan Controversy
It’s been an odd couple of weeks in the news recently, with a number of articles and video segments frantically reporting on the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno fiasco. “I’m with Coco” fans’ dreams for the future of The Tonight Show were laid to rest when NBC executives officially announced a little...
February 4th, 2010 | Media, Television | Read More Desperate Housewives and Democracy
Desperate Housewives, about to enter its sixth season, is a Gothic television series about a set of women who are stuck in suburbia. Though none of them are “housewives” in any traditional sense, the show plays on the 1950s stereotype. The community within the show is strikingly insular:...
September 3rd, 2009 | Culture, Other, Television | Read More So Say We All:
Battlestar Galactica Is the Best Show on Television
A shockingly large segment of the population suffers from the delusion that all artistic judgments are subjective. For instance, when confronted with a claim such as “John Singer Sargent is the greatest painter of the 20th century”, they believe that what is being presented is an assertion...
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Douthat, Ornstein and Self-Execution March 19, 2010 11:03 -
33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links March 19, 2010 00:03 -
Healthcare, Budgeting, and Student Loans – Time for Common Sense March 18, 2010 00:03 -
Decentralizing Healthcare – Lunch w/ TED March 18, 2010 00:03 -
Uh, What Do You Mean By “Great Responsibility” ? March 17, 2010 01:03
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- Doubt, Truth, and Wonder in Ministry March 18, 2010Every man wonders, and a man who is sure, beyond any doubts, has no faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God and a man displeasing to God has no business speaking for Him. The man without wonder is unfit for philosophy let alone ministry. It is the great mistake of the age to [...] […]John Mark Reynolds
- Happy Birthday, Rudolf Stier March 17, 2010Today (March 17) Rudolf Ewald Stier (1800 - 1862) was born. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of him, he is little noted nor much remembered these days. Partly because he was so awesome that our puny age cannot handle his sheer awesomeness. Stier did a lot of interesting things as a conservative Lutheran churchman [...] […]Fred Sanders
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