Tuesday, July 22, 2008

What We Know About The Joker

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Ruminations about the man behind the masque. Though this past weekend’s top performing movie is titled The Dark Knight , it might easily hav...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Random Thoughts

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Out for the Count I haven't posted for the last several weeks because I've been recuperating from my third cardiac ablation. This la...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

George Carlin, Google and Community Values

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Taboos change as new communications media determine what is accessible and what is not. More often than not, commentary on the recent death ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Feelings of YouTube Inadequacy

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Update Below (May 30, 2008) Over at Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing , Lance discusses the new heroes created by the internet and featur...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Beating Golf Clubs Into Swords

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President Bush chooses war over golf. In a recent interview with Politico, President Bush admitted that he had given up golf in deference th...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

Meta Four Play Part 4 - McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss' Canonical Formula: Down the Rabbit Hole

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My previous posts on this topic, which can be found here , here and here attempted to link the process of mythic analysis proposed by Clau...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Education in the Age of Secondary Orality

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The first humans lived under conditions of primary orality. Individual memory was the only way to transmit cultural heritage from one genera...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Something Wiki This Way Comes.

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If you spend any time browsing the YouTube, you've probably seen the Media Ecological videos produced by Kansas State University Pr...
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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Randi Rhodes and The First Amendment

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Air America Radio suspends Randi Rhodes for using the "W" word. In the 1919 case Schenk v. The United States , the United States S...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Meta Four Play Part 3 - McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss' Canonical Formula: Breaking Down the Formula

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"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact....
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Monday, March 3, 2008

This Just In From the Washington Post: Women Are Dim

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Sunday's Washington Post didn't see anything wrong with running an Op Ed piece by Charlotte Allen, We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Makeup Your Mind: Reflections On Cosmetics And Sport Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue

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A level playing field may apply in sports, but not in gender relations. Sports Illustrated's annual paean to impossible feminine perfect...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

On Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

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I am happy to see my 2007 article about Ray Bradbury and his novel, Fahrenheit 451, cited as part a bibilography connected with the Nationa...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Performance Enhancing Drugs

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In case you've been sleeping for the last 42 years, this Sunday the sports/media event known as the Super Bowl takes place. This penult...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Spawn of the Terminator

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The Terminator franchise finds new worlds to conquer In the recent TV resurrection of the Terminator trilogy, The Sara Connors Chronicles , ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Missing White House E-Mail Tapes

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Claims of missing e-mails tapes flies in the face of professional data center practices. A recent issue of the Washington Post (available he...
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