Kevin Maher is one of the funniest people I have ever met. At Vassar College, he was in the now-defunct Laughing Stock comedy group. When we were at Metuchen High School together, I remember him making these bizarre radio shows on tape before I went away to Europe. When we were on the YMCA swim team together in third grade… well, he was hilariously young.
Kevin debuted the SciFi Dept on the SciFi Scanner blog over at AMC in August. This is definitely going into my queue of things to view. Thanks, Kevin!
So the blogosphere is abuzz about the hostess on The View who demonstrated tremendous ignorance with regard to the shape of the earth. You can watch the full clip here.
The signal:noise problem on YouTube comments means that things get missed. So I am reposting my comment here.
in all fairness, at least the clip ends with the celebutard saying, "baby, we have to go to the library". proper respect for that move. and its true. take yourself and your kids to the library. often. nothing else to it. the more your read, even if its tripe, the more you think, the more you will be able to think critically about the information that gets pushed at you every day.
I barely caught her final statement at the end, and I’m glad the original poster did not cut that out, and that I was listening so passively that I wasn’t completely incensed by her ignorance. No, this does not redeem her totally by any stretch, but it does go in the right direction. Read, folks. Read with your kids. Take them to libraries. Take them to bookstores. Donate time or money to libraries. Have your kids donate time or money. "Think of the children." Take them reading.
One of the coolest things these folks are doing is soliciting content and remixes from the community of viewers. Have a camera and computer? Film your thoughts on the subject and post them GooTube (that is, Google Video or YouTube) with the tag “net neutrality”. Or download the video for Final Cut Pro and create your own mix.
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