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Joe the Plumber not only has a book deal, but he has a whole online community! Joe the Blogger, Joe the Reporter, and (I kid you not) Joe the Forum. Costs only $19.95 to sign up for a "We...
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http://www.secureourdream.com/html/content_page.php?content_id=4&nav_id=2&
The Blob and I - Books
A bemused response to some apparently pretty serious factual errors in the discussion by Jeff Sharlet, in his book on "the Family," of the origins of the Steve McQueen movie, "The Blob."
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/006/1.32.html
'Save Me' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
I'd like to investigate this further. It's a movie about a so-called "ex-gay ministry."
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http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-saveme19-2008sep19,0,4842824.story?track=rss
Terence McNally, Susan Jacoby, "How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America," Alternet, August 15, 2008
Basically follows the precedent set by Hofstadter.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/95109/how_anti-intellectualism_is_destroying_america/?page=entire
Since when is it elitist to be well-informed?
This is Susan Jacoby's column from May 2008, already widely discussed. I hadn't seen it until now.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/opinion/30jacoby.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slo...
Flat-earthers: the ultimate conspiracy theorists (and yes, they do exist)
Although it sounds like an "elaborate joke," the Flat Earth Society has attracted some true believers. The article talks about the history of the flat earth idea (it's modern; it's only b...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm
"Lost" (the TV show) and religion
Bookmarking this mostly to read later.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/211/story_21132_1.html
Interviews: The Little Robot That Could | Christianity Today Movies (interview with Pixar's Andrew Stanton)
Christianity Today interviews the writer of WALL•E (2008) about the connection between his religious beliefs and his movies. It's not exactly a searching interview, but it's an interes...
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/interviews/andrewstanton.html
Judith Warner: The Hillary-haters and "Sex and the City"
Judith Warner on the brutal misogyny represented in all the banter, on the one hand, about Hillary Clinton as a "castrating," bitchy female, and on the other hand, the "frothy," cheerful,...
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http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge
Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define - New York Times
This is truly depressing. Reminds me of Fear of Flying, except without the fun stuff and the sense of humor.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04love.html
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 101 : NPR
Holy crow, a colleague of mine was featured on Morning Edition. That's something to aspire to ...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90620525&ft=1&f=1013
"Lord, Save Us from Your Followers," a movie about American "bumper-sticker culture"
A documentary about how our national debate about serious issues has degenerated into sloganeering -- mainly carried out via bumper sticker.
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http://lordsaveusthemovie.com/home.html
MoJo's Riff Blog on Garfield Minus Garfield
Several folks have already clipped Garfield Minus Garfield (http://snipr.com/22bo5). Here's a review of the site from Mother Jones's "Riff Blog" -- I can't tell how tongue-in-cheek it is...
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http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/archives/2008/03/7705_garfield_minus.html
What NPR is really about
This American Life's mission is nearly complete: "There is not a single existential crisis or self-congratulatory epiphany that has been or could be experienced by a left-leaning agnostic...
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/this_american_life_completes
Radiant City :: A Documentary About Urban Sprawl
A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass...
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http://www.radiantcitymovie.com
The Mod Squad TV Show Unofficial Home Page w/ Pictures & Episode Guide
Via Kore7's links page (http://snurl.com/1jqg9).
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http://www.chezgrae.com/modsquad
Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix, #2
Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular,...
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http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/interpretations/desertreal.html
Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix
This is Žižek's famous 1999 essay, "The Two Sides of Perversion." I'm clipping it because I intend to read it; the bits I've looked at are very good.
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http://www.lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm
A Northern New Jersey of the Mind - The New York Review of Books
NYRB's essay on The Sopranos. It's a pretty interesting read.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20473
GetReligion.org's Terry Mattingly on Oprah's faith
Perceptive comments from religion-and-journalism blogger Terry Mattingly (http://GetReligion.org) on the religious significance of Oprah Winfrey. From January 2007.
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http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/column/2007/01/10
Bestseller in Mideast: Barbie With a Prayer Mat - New York Times
A Barbie-like doll with "Muslim values," i.e. accoutrements like headscarf and prayer mat.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/international/middleeast/22doll.html?ex=1285041600&en=72bb...
Black Jesus Film Makes Waves at Sundance
A new South African movie portrays the life of Jesus as set in the context of modern-day Africa. I really want to see this.
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http://articles.news.aol.com/movies/article.adp?id=20060119060409990001#movies
Daniel Boorstin, 'The Image' (1961) - Ch. 1, excerpt
Classic cultural criticism which I'm embarrassed to say I've never ever read.
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http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/boorstin.html
Apocalypse now! Examining the 'Rapture' Craze (Vanity Fair)
On the significance of Tim Lahaye in popular U.S. evangelical circles.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/051128roco02
Wichita Eagle | 01/28/2006 | Super Bowl, 'Book of Daniel,' other cultural ideas of religion
A tongue-in-cheek commentary on the "religion" of the Super Bowl. Not particularly brilliant, but useful for PHIL309. Reprinted in the Inquirer.
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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/living/religion/13730584.htm
Burdens of the Modern Beast
Remarks on the phenomenon of people always carrying loads of crap around with them. I notice this too. It's weird.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020702030.html?sub=AR
BREITBART.COM - God gives way to Grand Slam All Blacks in New Zealand church
Alex, writing on the Super Bowl article, also cited this rather remarkable story from New Zealand.
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/051027000250.xbk66v79.html
USATODAY.com - Hindu lite
On the appropriation of so-called "Hindu-esque" ideas and symbols by U.S. popular culture - pro and con. See also snurl.com/yogahands and snurl.com/gr_hindu
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-02-15-hindu-lite_x.htm
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News
Interview with one of the stars of "Paradise Now," a Palestinian feature film portraying 48 hours in the life of two young suicide bombers.
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http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs2572
liveprayer.com/java
Bill Keller of liveprayer.com writes a nice story about how Harry Potter returns to his Muggle home, finds Jesus and renounces wizardry.
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http://www.liveprayer.com/java
TV Faith: Rituals of Secular Life
An article, originally published in Christian Century in 1986, arguing very seriously for the religious ("sacramental") function of popular media in forming an almost religious vision of ...
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1036
In praise of the faith market - General - In Depth - theage.com.au
From July 2005, an article on Lynn Schofield Clark's work on "religious lifestyle branding" -- the way people in mass-media-driven, consumer cultures appropriate and use religious symbols...
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/07/29/1122144004012.html?oneclick=true#
Christian Century: Everyday Apocalypse: the Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, the Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons - Book Review
A review by Melissa Jenks of a book by David Dark, published 2004 in Christian Century. Dark treats The Simpsons, the Coen brothers, Radiohead, and The Matrix -- along with Flannery O'Con...
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_1_121/ai_112411325
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
An eight-page set of R. Crumb comic panels describing a complex, multi-year religious experience or hallucination as related by author Philip K. Dick. Via deathblow's bookmarks.
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http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo.htm
Fire and Brimstone, Guns and Ammo
A piece in the Washington Post about the new "Left Behind" video game, called "Left Behind: Eternal Forces."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601764.html
Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things - New York Times
Naomi Wolf on current young adult fiction for girls and the seriously messed-up moral messages it sends. Rebecca Traister responds in Salon, 5/19/06, snurl.com/w8zx.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/12wolf.html?ex=1299819600&en=210498b9aa6e3d80...
Return of the brainless hussies - Salon.com Life
Rebecca Traister's extended riff on Naomi Wolf's 3/12/06 blast in the NYT (snurl.com/w8zl) against supposedly retrograde young-adult consumer culture for girls. Traister thinks it's bad, ...
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http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/05/19/puttin_on_the_ditz
Boomers, Religion and the Meaning of Life - Baby Boomers At 60 - MSNBC.com
Baby boomers and religion.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14754222/site/newsweek
questioning government - american thing
Grafitti: "Questioning government is the most American thing a person can do."
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/74F823F5-30AF-4472-A042-0B6B84D68497
Reviewing Mike Judge's Idiocracy. By Reihan Salam - Slate Magazine
Mike Judge (of Office Space and Beavis and Butthead) has a new movie, Idiocracy, on American stupidity. Slate calls it radical and biting.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2150627/?nav=ais
brooks
David Brooks's famous (and highly controversial) essay in the Atlantic (2001), "The Organization Kid."
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http://usm.maine.edu/~amoroso/edu624/brooks.html
How Oprah and other infotainment programs encourage the mentally tardy to vote. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
"Soft news" is actually good for democracy. Hmm. Slate's perspective on a new poli-sci investigation of lite political journalism (original at snurl.com/116f1).
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http://www.slate.com/id/2152777
The Christian Paradox (Harpers.org)
Bill McKibben with a bitter condemnation of what he sees as the contemporary American misinterpretation of Christianity.
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http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html
Childhood "ending sooner", survey finds
A survey finds that today's children stop believing in imaginary creatures much earlier than their parents did, and that many children are pressured by parents to perform well in school a...
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1940483,00.html
Feeling insecure and rich? Hire a MySpace consultant
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http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:UD9T9xvCmoQJ:newsgirl.awardspace.co.uk/+%22Michelle+Gaub...
What's so funny about "Kum-ba-yah"?
An interesting little exploration of the question: how did the song "Kum-ba-yah" get turned into a standing joke about liberal Christian mushiness? Via http://getreligion.org/?p=2034
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-kumbaya_11rel.ART0.State....