1. "al-Crayola" It's difficult to believe this is actually true, but it is.
Representative Sample: What's the last thing that would come to mind when trying to devise a plan to rehabilitate potential mass murderers?
2. "Teleportation: A Cooler Word than "Quantum Entanglement," it Seems" New advances as science fiction starts to become reality.
Representative Sample: if we want faster, more powerful, computers: there's going to have to be a new technology. This could be it.
3. "Who cares?" Suicide bombing against a civilian bus in Somalia. Nobody particularly cares.
4. "Tolerance in America" Some good advice here for everyone, especially people who want intrude into things that are none of their business.
Representative Sample: To do the right thing - and be tolerant and respectful of other people's rights to live how they want to - the only thing you have to do is settle back into your chair
5. "It's called 'projection'" A quick rebuttal to a particularly silly Washington Post article.
Representative Sample: The media is so deeply infatuated with Obama, they imagine that Muslims must be, too
Wow! I'm flattered that my contribution is amongst such fascinating articles!
ReplyDeleteRoland,
ReplyDeleteI look for all sorts of things that I find interesting, and I thought your post on tolerance was great. We may disagree about politics on a number of issues, but we definitely agree that the world would be better if many people could simply mind their own businesses.
Years ago I had an argument with an a young, well-educated co-worker. He opposed interracial marriage because he thought it was "wrong." I asked him what business of his it was if two people of different races wanted to get married, and how that affected him in any way. Naturally he couldn't answer that.
To do the right thing - and be tolerant and respectful of other people's rights to live how they want to - the only thing you have to do is settle back into your chair.
ReplyDeleteIn Black Like Me, Griffin describes one scene where he and a few other black people tried sitting in the front of the bus. A loud white guy came up to them and demanded they move to the back, threatening violence. Nobody else spoke up, so they moved. After that guy came off, another white guy came to them and said, "You know, boys, if he had really tried something, I'd have stopped him - don't worry." And Griffin notes how, besides the condescending word "boys," the promise was worthless; that person never did anything back when it counted.