Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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There is More Than Supply and Demand
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2 min read
One of my pet peeves is false dichotamies. You know, when we make complex problems into simple either/or solutions. Like politics. That’s why Robert Reich’s recent column struck me this morning as I read it. He was talking about what the U.S. could learn from the European economic crisis, which is a telling case of…
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Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘
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Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘Amen.
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Peyton Manning: that savior?
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2 min read
While doing my annual obsessive consumption of the NFL Draft, I came across this interesting article about the new Denver Bronco, Peyton Manning’s role as mentor to the rookie quarterback the team just drafted. What struck me while reading it is the tone of the second half of the article: Manning is in Denver to win,…
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An Overly Simplistic Description of Race in America
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3 min read
Considering all the overblown rhetoric about how post-racial we’re supposed to be, I thought a short description of how post-racial we actually are, and how post-racial we could be, might be useful. Our society is post-racial We actually do live in a post-racial society, if by society we actually mean culture. The pervading culture is…
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The Postmodern Condition: Blame Must Be Shared
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4 min read
I watched a TED Talk a couple weeks ago that included a simple picture. The speaker began talking about distraction, because the picture, like the one I’ve provided below, demonstrated what he meant about distraction. The original picture was of a Dad at the park and he was playing with his smart phone while the…
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Restore the “Vagina”!
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Restore the “Vagina”!. Rachel Held Evans can’t write “vagina”? Oh! She can write it, but Thomas Nelson won’t publish it. Wait a second. Why not? Oh! Because some Christians might be offended by it. Wait a second. Why? I should have known. The human body is freeky and gross. That sort of makes sense. It’s…