"I want a government as good and as honest and as decent and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." – Jimmy Carter
It's too bad we're unlikely to find it in either major party.
Dr. Philip Blosser has an excellent post on Jimmy Carter's fall from admirable idealist to lapdog. It's a shame that a good man can't be a good president. It's a greater shame that the same good man lowers himself to supporting those whose beliefs directly contradict his faith.
In time for the DNC convention, here’s a fascinating
article about the fruitlessness of dividing the country into red and blue states.
According to the author, I’m in the Great
Lakes region. (Thanks, Dappled
Things)
I’m sure by now most have heard that the hilarious JibJab parody of “This Land”
by Woody Guthrie is under
attack from the copyright owners of the latter.
BoingBoing has added an interesting twist to the debate. ‘Twould seem good ol’ Guthrie
wasn’t
particularly anal about copyrights himself.
The fight for a
la carte cable has crossed over into main-stream media.
Cable Channel-Shuffling Considered
Congress has raised a question that the cable TV industry does not want to answer: Why can’t I get SpongeBob SquarePants without having to buy Stripperella, too?