Not my column, but one of the other columnists for my paper ran this Sunday.
Laws aside, that's one ugly sculpture "For all the fighting, fulminating and arguing over the past few weeks about the removal of a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building, nobody seems to have brought up one critical point. And it's about time somebody stood up, cleared his throat and spoke a basic and undeniable truth about the monument. "It is ugly. "It is wet-dog ugly. "It looks like a grave-site monument to somebody who had directed his heirs to go out to the Tombstone Discount Warehouse and buy the biggest, squarest, most expensive piece of stone in the whole showroom. Preferably, something shaped at least a little like a washing machine. "This is what all the wailing, shouting and police action was about -- 5,280 pounds of igneous ugly."
Oh, I love it...
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Oh my, they have been doing a series on NPR on Alabamans and raising property taxes. And I watched the OU-AL football game over the weekend and there was a segment on getting black coaches into the SEC. (You need black assistant coaches first but the segment never discussed that.) Anyway the two combined made me realize that though I went from California to Oklakhoma and had conservative culture shock, it could have been far worse. At least Oklahoma attempts to be progressive. They may be deluding themselves on the amount of progressiveness but at least they try! Alabama came off looking really bad in a lot of ways from the combination all of the recent spin. (Not to mention that we did win the football game!)
AJ
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
And OF COURSE, NPR is the BEST media resource when it comes to reporting on conservatives.
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Try Pacifica Radio Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Actually the whole property tax thing (which was what I was referring to on NPR) isn't particularly a liberal vs. conservative debate. It is the conservative Republican governor that wants to raise the taxes. Even at the level of raise is proposing, Alabama would STILL have the lowest property taxes in the country. Also the poor would have a tax break even though the middle class and wealthy would have higher tax burden.
To me a balanced news day is NPR on the way to work in the morning and Rush Limbaugh at noon.
The sports blurb was on ESPN.
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
For the record:
I would be perfectly fine with the 10 commandments monument staying if Hammurabai's code was engraved into the base.
AJ
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Well the thing is it's not just just the Ten Commandments. This is an Ornery thread (watch out! ) that should explain more.
Hobbes Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
actually I read that thread
And it appears from the information there, particularly that treaty, that some of the founding fathers probably would have preferred that their quotations were not on the pedestal. That is why I said Hammurabai's code.
AJ
edit for homonym error
[ September 08, 2003, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
NPR is still the finest balanced news out there. A typical comparison (I listen to Rush at times, as well): On the day that the results of the Day Care survey was released (won't go into details, but it was a BIG one). Rush goes on and on about what the results mean, how it will hurt the liberals, hurt the Clintons (he has to mention them at least once every 15 minutes), etc. Turn the station to NPR on "Talk of the Nation." They have the author of the Day Care research on as a guest answering questions by both the host and callers. Who is more balanced? Where is the better information? Just curious. Sorry to go off topic, but had to give props to my NPR.
I do like the "ugly monument" bit, though. Funny stuff!
ciao,
fil
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
This popped up in a search, you know how I hate to start new threads
Is the 10 commandments written in Hebrew any less offensive, or does it become a cultural work rather than a statement of religious preference on the part of the state?
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
NPR is fabulous for some topics. On other topics (abortion, especially), it is flamingly liberal. It isn't consistently biased, but I have caught them often enough that while I love it, I don't trust most of their opinions.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hmm... that link doesn't work for me...
Also, I am shocked... shocked to see that no one has made a "Smooth n' Smarmy!" joke yet.
[ March 14, 2005, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Dang old public radio. I never got my tote bag.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Proof that there is a Simpson's quote for every thread.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Dag, there's a Simpsons quote for every conceivable situation.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Unless we archive them, our articles drop of our site after two weeks.
The fact that my columns stay active and I'm also the webmaster is entirely coincidental.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
You think you webmasters and network gurus have it good? Think about what lawyers can do in analogous situations.
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