Wednesday, November 30, 2005
News You Snoozed On
Underreported.com is a blog, not a news site, so expect some political commentary one way or another. Blog's dealing with the news usually spend a lot of time blasting their horns with the whole "we support the individual, while major news corporations support the corporations" wank.
But Underreported.com blows my mind as it points out the stories that were published in the back of the newspapers. An example of this would be aide's of Tony Blair, cautioning him that the U.S.'s intelligence of the iraqi regime seems to be 'framed toward a pro-war conclusion' (paraphrasing a quote, go read Underreported.com).
For example, I didn't know that they were now doing pep-rally's in school for standardized testing. Read that last sentence again and think about it. Can you imagine a pep-rally for any of the standardized tests you took?
The thing I loved most about high school was taking college level classes at a preppy, conservative, liberal arts university and hanging out with people who weren't preppy or conservative. We had our own nerdy little cirlce where we invented new swears as a result of having to modify function parameters on recurisve descent parsers.
I also loved having a punk rock radio show with safe harbor so I didn't have to bleep the swears.
There is no amount of state-sponsored brainwashing that could get me to love filling in little circles. And I hope for our the future of this country, there isn't enough of that to convince the next-generation, either.
But Underreported.com blows my mind as it points out the stories that were published in the back of the newspapers. An example of this would be aide's of Tony Blair, cautioning him that the U.S.'s intelligence of the iraqi regime seems to be 'framed toward a pro-war conclusion' (paraphrasing a quote, go read Underreported.com).
For example, I didn't know that they were now doing pep-rally's in school for standardized testing. Read that last sentence again and think about it. Can you imagine a pep-rally for any of the standardized tests you took?
The thing I loved most about high school was taking college level classes at a preppy, conservative, liberal arts university and hanging out with people who weren't preppy or conservative. We had our own nerdy little cirlce where we invented new swears as a result of having to modify function parameters on recurisve descent parsers.
I also loved having a punk rock radio show with safe harbor so I didn't have to bleep the swears.
There is no amount of state-sponsored brainwashing that could get me to love filling in little circles. And I hope for our the future of this country, there isn't enough of that to convince the next-generation, either.
