Darth Vader Calls
Ardellis | June 5, 2006
Today’s big laugh, brought to you by Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and YouTube: Darth Vader Calls.
Via Jack Fleming’s Journal.
The Framing of Immigration
Ardellis | June 4, 2006
If you’re interested in the current brouhaha over immigration into the US, or in the use of language in a political context, this article is a must-read. (It’s about framing, which may be an unfamiliar concept to some of you, so here’s the primer.)
Even if we could “protect†ourselves by sealing the border and preventing [...]
Studs Terkel Sues Over Phone Records
Ardellis | June 3, 2006
I adore Studs Terkel.
“Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans,” Terkel said in a statement. “When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too [...]
