Redeeming Hope - August 2005 Archives

August 2005

Still Sticking Around? (17:56) - Have you noticed that a lot of people still have their bumper stickers on their cars from the ’04 election? What’s that about? An article about the bumper stickers in Sunday’s Washington Post includes an argument from Marshall Blonsky, a professor of semiotics at New York’s Parson School of Design, about why the stickers remain. According to the article: Personal identity is growing increasingly weak, Blonsky argues, and a political label "turbocharges" a weak identity... | 1 Comments

Follow the Bouncing Ball (16:50) - Yesterday, Bob Huggins, University of Cincinnati men’s basketball coach, was canned by Nancy Zimpher, UC president. Good for her. Now the real test begins. Huggins’ teams over the years consistently had repulsively low graduation rates. His players constantly got into trouble. None of this was ever a secret. The real problem is why did it take UC so long to act? Indeed, why do so many colleges and universities view their athletes simply as commodities... | 0 Comments

Finding Ourselves In Cultural Geography (18:28) - I’m heading off for vacation tomorrow wondering just how different we all are from each other. David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, whom I love to read, did another piece yesterday on cultural geography, or what might be called, the “divided America.” Brooks wrote: Forty-million Americans move every year, and they generally move in with people like themselves, so as the late James Chapin used to say, every place becomes more like itself. Crunchy... | 1 Comments

Tavis Talks, We Should Listen (23:39) - Tavis Smiley hit the nail on the head in his recent take on the current public broadcasting brouhaha. The debate is about bias, but not the kind that is often talked about. In his Sunday Washington Post piece, entitled Left? Right? Wrong! The Misguided CPB Debate, Smiley wrote: While Washington talks about ideological balance, Americans hunger to see programming that reflects their experience and inspires their lives. Finally, we’re getting some place! For years my... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments