On...Getting Fired Up

Want to know what really fires up a Conservative?

Read this essay by Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard. By the time you get to the end a conservative will be shaking his/her head and pacing around the room or stomping their feet or putting a fist through a wall. It boils the blood. But whatta ya goin' to do?



Then you think that Newsweek is dying, The New York Times will get bailed out or die, and no one watches CBS news anymore. Ah, the market works.

Oh, yeah and Helen Thomas will eventually kick the bucket. By the way, doesn't she (and I use she lightly) look like Emperor Palpatine in a bad wig?

From...Commentary and Yon

Couple of articles real quick. Sorry I don't have time to actually write some real commentary.

The End of Newsweek? from Commentary

Recent Blog Post from Michael Yon of note.

On...The Decline and Fall of ...Newsweek?

Since I posted the article from Newsweek about the Decline and Fall of Christianity I thought I'd post another one of the counter articles. HERE This one is mainly how Newsweek itself is tanking much faster than Christianity. It is fascinating how our society is changing when it comes to communication and information.

The only moderate fear about all this "change" is that real fact-finding journalism will be totally displaced by editorialization and infotainment to a huge degree. Though I'm sure there will be a counterbalance somewhere as long as our markets and press are free from groupthink and censorship.

For...Maundy Thursday

Happy Maundy Thursday Everyone

Ross Douthat has posted a few links for Holy Week. One is a Catholic follow-up to the Jon Meacham article I posted the other day.

And for more on Maundy Thursday you can go HERE and HERE

On...News Weekly's 2 Big Stories

Mainstream Essays

Time and Newsweek in the past few weeks have had large essays regarding two relevant issues. From Time we get author/journalist Kurt Anderson on The End of Excess and from Newsweek we get historian Jon Meacham on The End of Christian America. I believe both titles are a little misleading, but each have plenty to chew over--some good, some off-the-mark a bit, and some great for debate.

Many of you may find them interesting. If I get time I would like to revisit them in length.