A Chicago activist and SDS member refutes Adbuster’s dismissal of hipster culture as “the dead-end of Western Civilization”
Confused about the many alternative fuel options? We break it down for you.
Recent attacks on UC Santa Cruz Professors reveal faultlines within the already-contentious animal rights movement.
Why does Hollywood insist on casting white actors at the center of Asian-American films?
Malthus and the creation of Private Property
We have been taught that capitalism is rooted in natural selection, but that’s only one way of reading Darwin’s theories
Just as the “Night” must be taken back, so must the mini skirt be worn.
A physicist urges for peace-minded political involvement in the sciences.
As many conscious shoppers embrace the locavore lifestyle, are we leaving behind those not privileged to live in our geographic area?
French poet French Valery famously said, “everything changes but the avant-garde.” The same could be said of the recurring pet arguments online.
Does the insurgent atheist movement need a better public relations team?
You could make a strong argument that bro-speak is the lingua franca of young American males. I once thought it was primarily a west coast thing–in beach towns like Santa Cruz, “bro” is used for exclamation, punctuation, and to fill any dead air. Then I moved to Chicago to find that yes, people in the midwest aren’t past using a well-placed “bro” here or there. Over the past couple of weeks, the bro meme has been seemingly everywhere, first with the Onion article Bro, You’re a God Among Bros and now with the unavoidable and stomach-churning Internet meme “Don’t Tase Me Bro.”
The quote refers to Andrew Meyer, who was tasered and arrested on Monday at the University of Florida when he refused to stop asking speaker John Kerry a series of pointed questions about the 2004 election, using Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse for a playbook. When police apprehended him, Meyer freaked out and the Police reacted extremely. Unlike the Onion piece above, there’s not much funny in this, even though many are playing it for laughs:
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Mark Glaser at PBS’ generally-excellent media blog Mediashift breaks down the two major camps in the debate over the print-to-digital transition. He makes the distinction of older readers who still prefer the tactile appeal of print (among other factors) and younger readers who prefer the networked, get-it-anywhere-for-free qualities of Internet content. He’s not wrong about the shift–it’s certainly happening–but I still can’t shake the feeling that print is going through what economists euphemistically call a “correction”, not a slow death.
He makes a point made often in these discussions about youth’s content-consuming habits:
…the younger set finds what they want through social networks and be-friending their favorite bands on MySpace. The digital natives don
Paul M Davis