Newspapers and Impact

An brutally accurate assessment of the current state of newspapers by Doug Chapel, whose “Action Geek” comic was recently axed by Worcester Magazine:

There WAS a time when a newspaper could have actual IMPACT on its environment, but as of late, it’s easier just to be an easily palatable vehicle for advertisement instead of a hard-hitting, gutsy, opinionated, essential part of living where we live.

(HT: aan.org)

Take Clint Eastwood Seriously, Please

In a time when celebrities are constantly urging us to be hypersensitive and outraged at something new every day, Clint Eastwood’s words are quite refreshing:

I hate the so-called PC thing. I think that’s one of the things that’s damaging our generation at the present time. Everybody is taking themselves and everything so seriously. If they just relax a little more and take themselves and everything else a little less seriously, they’d have a lot more fun.

Merry Christmas from a Galaxy Far, Far Away

I think the following video sums up how I feel about each and every one of you. Or something…

Sowell on Elitism

From “A Personal Odyssey,” my favorite of Thomas Sowell’s books:

My early struggle to make a new life for myself under precarious economic conditions put me in daily contact with people who were neither well-educated nor particularly genteel, but who had practical wisdom far beyond what I had—and I knew it. It gave me a lasting respect for the common sense of ordinary people, a factor routinely ignored by the intellectuals among whom I would later make my career. This was a blind spot in much of their social analysis which I did not have to contend with.

Endorsement: Joe Lance for Mayor

In an age when too many politicians are preoccupied with maintaining power, building legacies, and catering more to the wishes of special interest groups than they are to serving the will of the people, Joe Lance is a breath of fresh air.