In 1996, my wrists started hurting when I was at a computer. I was a recently-graduated, entry-level, computer geek working for a new and optimistically-named web development company “Utopia,” and friends all around me were developing major problems with RSI (or as MC Frontalot calls it, the “wrist-hurt disease”) caused by a combination of bad [...]
NPR : Dire Predictions and Disastrous Votes: Election Ads Melissa Block talks with voice-over artists Dennis Steele and Scott Sanders about how to make a threatening voice for a political ad. This is some funny stuff, here, especially the nursery rhymes. I wish everyone would at some point in their life understand that pretty much [...]
We prove ourselves citizens of a democracy not by our winning of elections but by our agreeing to lose elections. — Lewis H. Lapham … They should teach this in grade school civics and not let anyone graduate until they really get it. Hearing the news come in today and having watched politics for the [...]
The Blog | Eric Kuhn: A Conversation With CNN’s Lou Dobbs: The Economy, Immigration, The Constitution, And A Little, Tiny Sip Of Vodka | The Huffington Post [...] You are going to have to assert, again, a fundamental value that you are going to be first and foremost a citizen and that you and everyone [...]
I’m sitting in Glen’s living room, tired from a long day of work after a shorter night’s sleep than usual. (Was visiting J&J and their boys, which as usual meant staying up late hanging with the adults and getting up early (in this case, 6 a.m.) to hang with the whole family. While I can [...]