7 posts tagged “conservative”

Finally got around to posting the Half Hour News Hour Recap for the July 22nd, 2007 episode. I still have this past week's to catch up on, but I'm making progress. The recap can be read on kivus.com or johnkivus.com

Another new Wordpress post, this one entitled "Tales of a Twenty-Something Conservative". This makes 4 out of the 5 I was trying to complete by the end of the day on August 1st, and like the others, can be read on kivus.com and johnkivus.com

Excerpt:

Yes, it’s true. Existing in the wild today are conservatives who are in their twenties. Of course, when we go out, we normally have film crews following us: “Watch them enter those buildings. They come here every Sunday. We think they’re called churches” the narrator says. “Then after attending these ‘churches’, they go home, and watch cars drive quite quickly in a circle. It’s a growing sport, known as ‘NASCAR.’ We have yet to fully understand the rules, but we think it has something to do with the different colored flags they wave from time to time.” As far as the media and our peers are concerned, we might as well be some rare species.

Just finished a Wordpress posting entitled _Freedom of Speech & Freedom of the Press does not mean Freedom from Consequences_. You can read it at either kivus.com or johnkivus.com.

Excerpt:

It’s a familiar refrain among people in the “young” media (i.e. shows who have a target audience the skews towards late teens, early 20s). It normally comes out like this “Yeah, well, I thought we have freedom of speech in this country…”. That simple phrase is used to defend all sorts of questionable comments by people from Bill Mahr to Rosie O’Donnell. What the people making the claim of freedom of speech are upset about, however, is not the right someone has to say something, it’s the fact that people might face some consequences for what they say. Though people have the right to say what they want, other people are allowed to react to what the first person says, and it’s this second part of the equation that’s usually forgotten.

So I completed my new Tumblr, reaganacolyte.com. It contains my own personal comments from my personal sites (kivus.com and kivus.vox.com), filtered to only include those stories I put a "political" tag on (the filtering was accomplished by using Yahoo Pipes), as well as some of my favorite columnists like Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer.

I'm not sure how useful reaganacolyte.com will turn out to be, but at least the domain won't sit idle until I figure out something really good to do with it.

So, I made my 2 Yahoo Pipes:
Kivus.com (Tags: Conservative & Political) -> http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=XpHsIeYV3BGoRhAGqGIyXQ&_render=rss
Kivus.vox.com (Tags: Politics & Political) -> http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=dv2RheoV3BGnK5ui6kjTQA&_render=rss

to filter out the articles I wanted for my new Tumblr. It was pretty straightforward, probably use their functionality again.

With the recent uproar from the left about the Supreme Court's decision to not allow a woman to sue for wage discrimination years after her initial alleged harm, now seems like a good time to mention one of those "life altering books". _White Guilt_ by Shelby Steele is an amazing work, examining race in America and how it relates to the a sense of guilt felt by those in the majority. It's a book that I am fortunate to have read so early in my life.

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

Shelby Steele

Just finished a new Wordpress post, entitled "Why does the far left flock to the web?" As always, you can read it at kivus.com or johnkivus.com.