A while back, I read George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant. It was extremely helpful in understanding how progressives and neo-conservatives frame issues differently and their underlying values. From it, I learned NeoCons see asking for help a sign of weakness. That all assistance is charity and charity should be abolished. That if you’re …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
“George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”
Anyone else catch this on NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief? The man that said it was on camera with Michael Myers. I didn’t recognize him. Did you? UPDATE: According to PBCLiberal, it was non-NBC talking head Kayne West Video can be found at Zebrality Looks like I heard something different, the quote being reported is: …
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We Going 3 For 3?
“…earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. The other two? A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York City.” – 2001, Houston Chronicle
Who Do We Attack for Katrina?
Saturday Night Live had an opening sketch that sticks in my mind. In it, Bush wins the 2000 presidency and he’s commenting on the state of our nation: “The Great Lakes are on fire – even I know that’s not good.” On September 11, 2001, 2,819 died in a terrorist action on our soil. Bush …
Happy Blog Day
In continuing the Blog Day 2005 meme (Tim, thanks for the head’s up), here’s a trio of blogs that have pulled me in recently: The Philosopher’s Almanac podcast, a very enjoyable listen on philosophical issues from Peter Shea at the U of M. Yeah, he’s in PodcastMN now also. Connecting the Dots with Steve Borsch, …
Using Search Engines and Tags to Get A Specific Someone’s Attention
Scoble pointed out this Google search for Susan Dumais, look at the ad in the right-hand column. It’s less of an ad and more of a unique recruiting method. I hope this is the future of Google Ads – very specific messages targeted to a single individual. This reminds me of the how venture capitalist …
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WP-iPodCatter Now v1.0
I’ve cleaned up a few things based on the feedback from the 0.9a version, and tweaked a couple more things. Decided “0.9” wasn’t as round a version as I’d like and v1.0 felt better. The Biggest Changes: – Comment-cast is now a checkbox option (there were some problems with it being supported on earlier versions …
House is Better than Boston Legal
When James Spader started on the Practice, his dialogue transformed the show into something worth watching. The same is true of Boston Legal, well, was true. The “We’re firing Alan Shore” storyline is tiresome. Firing Alan Shore would make all the fans stop watching. The threat alone turned me off. Fortunately, Jen introduced me to …
Marketing and Advertising are Not Synonyms
Too many conversations interchange these terms. I want to be clear about the difference. “Marketing is the process or act of bringing together buyer and sellers.” – Wikipedia “Advertising is (Stormhoek) dead.” – Hugh Macleod
From Podcast to Publish
If you’re in the Twin Cities, head on down to your favorite coffee shop and grab the Sept. issue of the Rake. Then turn to page 18, second column. Yep, that’s an article by yours truly. Sure, you could stay indoors and click this Prairie Home Companion Production Assistant link, but it’s a beautiful late …