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- The Daily Show continues to be funny and thoughtful.
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is single-handedly trying to rewrite the 14th amendment. No equal protection for women, according to him.
- If you have a little bit of money on the side and are a special client of Goldman Sachs you might have a small window of opportunity to invest in Facebook. By the way, how does Facebook make money? It’s only a $2 million buy-in. Let’s sign up. Oh, and where’s MySpace?
- The gap between rich and poor only grew during our Great Recession.
- I don’t understand publishing a sanitized version of Huckleberry Finn. I don’t understand. No “n” word. No “injun” Joe. The society that we live in now did not suddenly appear 20 years ago. Instead, the multicultural society that we live in now grew out of a very segregated society. Mass immigration in the late 1800s was not met with open arms. There was a lot of tension and a lot of conflict. There was hatred and love, fellowship and intense misunderstanding. That tension, that conflict and that compassion is evident in Huckleberry Finn. Every school-age kid should have the opportunity to read Huckleberry Finn in its original form. Every seventh-grade classroom should talk about this book in detail. Update: From WaPo: It would be like renaming 1984 2084, “because the current title does not reflect how pleasant life was under the Reagan administration.” This is like changing War and Peace to Peace, because war is unpleasant to remember, or removing World War I from All Quiet on the Western Front. If we keep updating things to reflect our current sensitivities, where do we stop?
- Glenn Beck has lost a major radio station in New York.
- On a less serious note, a con man claims that he slept with over 2500 women and stole more than $3 million.
- Baker Street was one of those tunes that just seem to transcend rock, pop or R&B. Gerry Rafferty is dead at the age of 63. I don’t have any of his albums. All I know is I really enjoyed his music. Here is Baker Street and another song that he wrote. I hope you enjoy them both.
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by AKGEE Protections, Errington Thompson . Errington Thompson said: Grab Bag Wednesday http://t.co/TFdA0cZ rewriting Huckleberry Finn is a sin. This and more in my Wednesday evening Roundup. #p2 […]
Its laughable that the first move of the GOP House is to vote to repeal Health Care. This when the majority of Americans support it. But the real hypocracy is the GOP wasting time on something they know will fail. It will never pass in the Senate, and even if by some bizzare act it did, it will be vetoed with no hope of override.
So thanks GOP for starting out the session wasting our time and money.
A company in Utah tried to clean up movies and sell them. They called them Clean Flicks. They were sued and were put out of business. They didn’t have permission to do it. I am wondering why the publisher can rewrite without the permission of the author.
I was surprised to see the changes to Huck Finn. Erasing an ulgy word from a book does not change the fact that it was freely used at one time.
So this coupled with Texas new version of history is quite bizzare. What’s next? Pretending Hitler didn’t kill Jews? Shall we tell next generations that he was a cuddly guy?
oh, don’t forget that Republicans are going to read the Constitution. I find that terribly offensive. Are you saying that Democrats are too stupid to figure out where the Constitution is? Are you saying the Democrats have to be read to? Other Republican saying that they don’t know what’s in the Constitution unless it’s read out loud?
Simply offensive.
Thanks your comments. Oh, by the way, I thought that the health-care provision had a lot of things in it to make it revenue neutral? Won’t repealing the revenue neutral items increase the deficit? Republicans are proving once and for all that they are not for the American people.
I don’t know, I haven’t been able to find any information on this. I guess they bought the rights from whoever owns Mark Twain’s estate.
I think there is a movement of Republicans trying to whitewash our past. We can hear them now – see we are a Christian nation. As they rewrite the history of the Vietnam War and Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq – see we won every war we got into. It will go on and on.
Thanks for your comments.
Some of you are painting with a rather large brush. Most conservatives I know wouldn’t be the least bit concerned with how much a word offends anyone (the case the editor is working on), and conservative “war mongers” had no trouble fighting Hitler, though our ignorance of Stalin was a terrible mistake. What Texas is doing is their own business.
I don’t mean to cross promote here but our philosophy blog at Utah State University is going over this. I only post it because the comments are few, and have a higher quality with distinct points. I also commented, for what its worth, and the Richard Pryor video I think adds to my point.
Here’s the link:
http://usuphilosophy.com/2011/01/06/the-n-word-and-huck-finn/
You can respond there if you like but it would probably be better here out of respect for the Thompson’s blog.
Apparently a Court has overridden a fine leveled on ABC for NYPD Blue by the FCC (yeah acronyms!). Hopefully they rule out the FCC entirely so we aren’t wasting money on some retarded nanny state commission.