Todd Lohenry
This is a personal lifestream is use for experimenting with Tumblr. My main blog is at e1evation.com and my personal blog is at toddlohenry.com. This is a very clever theme -- mouse over the pile and you'll see what I mean...
This is a personal lifestream is use for experimenting with Tumblr. My main blog is at e1evation.com and my personal blog is at toddlohenry.com. This is a very clever theme -- mouse over the pile and you'll see what I mean...
New Year’s Resolutions for Improving Political Dialogue.
Courtney Martin maps out a path for American self-improvement:
As the new decade dawns, plenty of institutions — from gyms to retailers to churches — will be trying to capitalize on the resolution spirit. The advertising copy promises: Now’s the time to join, to run, to buy. Our usually frenetic pace slows, and we’re all but bullied into reflection. We take a look at our waistlines and credit-card debt, and promise ourselves that this year, no seriously, this year will be different.
But what if we used that energy not for self-improvement but for national renewal? If there’s anything that urgently needs a makeover, it’s the state of political dialogue. When we look back over the last year, it appears that our civic conversation has hit a new low. Think of Rep. Joe Wilson screaming “You lie!’ during President Barack Obama’s health-care speech, the birthers preying on ignorance and fear, the tea baggers disrupting town hall meetings across the nation, and almost any so-called debate between television pundits on one of the many shallow cable news shows. We’ve become a nation of screamers, not thinkers.
Posted by Alexandra Gutierrez on January 4, 2010 3:00 PM | Permalink |
