Paying Attention

Herein be random ruminations on politics, history, ideas, spirituality, religion, education, media, life, relationships, culture... and Boston sports when I really want to vent.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." (ubiquitous)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and never will." (Frederick Douglass)

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." (Susan B. Anthony)

"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible." (William Sloane Coffin)

February 6, 2011 12:08 am
Wallflowers at the Revolution - NYTimes.com

Read this.  If you allow American corporate news organzations to inform you about foreign affairs — and especially about Arabs and the Middle East — then you are willfully deciding to be ignorant, chauvinistic, and misinformed.

TV NEWS.  THE MORE YOU WATCH, THE LESS YOU KNOW.

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