Month: January 2008

"I felt, once again, that there was this underlying hostility for homosexuals and Democrats and, well, hippie types. I cannot tell you how much I did not want liberal or gay people to be my enemies. I liked them. The real issue in the Christian community was that (love) was conditional … You were loved in word, but there was, without question, a social commodity that was being withheld from you until you shaped up," – Donald Miller, author of "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality."

Alexander Nazaryan makes the case:

When Gawker first began, blogs were a renegade enterprise, sniping away at the edges of the media empire. They were seductive, and maybe even a little bit illicit. But now, some five years later, each newspaper has a plethora of blogs, and any major event will be blogged about before a drop of ink is spilled.

These days, for a blog to continue to be relevant, it cannot merely take shots at the media: rather, it needs to offer the same quality of writing that one expects from a newspaper or magazine. The best blogs are essentially fora for the kinds of shorter pieces that might not make it into a monthly, or even a weekly, journal. They are not, as Gawker has become, a repository for YouTube videos or celebrity sightings.

According to this poll, Obama is doing fine with Latinos. He beats Clinton 53 to 17 percent. of course, differnt Hispanic populations in different states have different perspectives. Obama is third among South Carolina whites, though.

Reihan sees an apocalypse for old media upon us:

In other news, the New York Times, the most valuable and prestigious brand in the news business, has declined in value by 70 percent over the last five years.

The massive wave of emails "smearing" Obama as a Muslim seem to be working with Jewish voters, according to The Jewish Week.

Hat tip: M.J. Rosenberg.

Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild have collaborated to create a visual representation of cross-references in the Bible. Harrison explains:

Due to the extremely high number of cross-references, this lands more on the aesthetic side of the information visualization spectrum. Different colors are used for various arc lengths, creating a rainbow like effect. The bar graph running along the bottom shows every chapter in the Bible and their respective lengths (in verses). Books alternate in color between white and light gray.

Click here to see a bigger picture of the graphic.

Again. What a sad, final betrayal of feminism. Even worse than sliming and smearing female victims of her husband’s sexual harassment.

Listen to Lanny Davis and think hard about what we could be re-electing.

Liberals waste $8.5 million on Bush-hatred. Just wait, guys. It’s nearly over.

An online visual representation of over eighty million nouns in the English language.