“UI alumna Smelser to speak Monday - Iowa City Press-Citizen” plus 2 more |
- UI alumna Smelser to speak Monday - Iowa City Press-Citizen
- Glenn Beck Declares War - Daily Beast
- Drop It Like It's Hot! - Harvard Crimson
| UI alumna Smelser to speak Monday - Iowa City Press-Citizen Posted: 21 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. University of Iowa alumna Sarah Smelser, a School of Art and Art History visiting artist in printmaking, will speak on "Confessions of a Pack Rat" at 7 p.m. Monday in Room 109 of UI English-Philosophy Building. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. Work by Smelser, who teaches at Illinois State University, have shown across the United States and she is the co-founder of Manneken Press in Bloomington. Her work is in the U.S. Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and Chase Manhattan Bank. She has been awarded residencies at the Franz Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium; ARTica in Bilbao, Spain; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Cal.; and the Vermont Studio. Her work was the focus of a recent exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Glenn Beck Declares War - Daily Beast Posted: 21 Feb 2010 02:41 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
Glenn Beck's closing keynote to CPAC was a rambling culmination of the conference's themes—a unified field theory of political philosophy that could be boiled down to this bumper sticker: Everything Bad in America is the Progressives' Fault. Glenn Beck declared war on "the cancer of progressivism" last night—and traced its persistent rot back to any 20th-century U.S. president not named Coolidge or Reagan. In Bad Beck's worldview, there's not much room for civic debate between conservatives and progressives. It sounds like it's time for a pogrom. Like surprise straw-poll winner Ron Paul, Beck placed special blame on both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, re-opening a musty century-old grudge match that allowed him to criticize both Democrats and Republicans for being too liberal. In this selective narrative, the only path to truth is doctrinaire conservatism. It's a neat trick that achieves complete absolution. George W. Bush, for example, was not a true conservative because of his big-government spending and desire to export democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not only a self-serving analysis of American politics—in Beck's hands, it was a very self-referential prescription for America's future. The Republican Party, and America itself, needs only to follow Beck's own vividly recounted recovering alcoholic path to redemption: first admitting it has a problem—an addiction to overspending—and them committing to a path of personal responsibility. It is still morning in America, Beck asserted, but it's "a head pounding vomiting hung-over kind of morning in America," with a painful purge still yet to come.
But a less-invested listen revealed the contradictions that emerge whenever the Good Glenn Beck wrestles with the Bad Glenn Beck in front of a live mic. On the one hand, the Good Beck assures us, "If you have a different opinion, that's OK… It takes the exchange of ideas" to make America. But the Bad Beck declares that progressivism was "designed to destroy the Constitution," therefore "we need to address it as if it was a cancer—it must be cut out of the system because it cannot coexist. It must be eradicated." In Bad Beck's worldview, there's not much room for civic debate between conservatives and progressives. It sounds like it's time for a pogrom. The Good Beck declares his essential optimism and belief in the strength of the American system. The Bad Beck warns "an economic holocaust is coming" while warning, "our government looks at the American people as the bad guy." The bottom line in Beck's worldview is that conservatives have God and the Constitution on their side, while progressives represent a slow, intentional, and insidious slide to communist dictatorship. It's absolutism disguised as apple pie, and the crowd at CPAC ate it up, newly assured that they own the exclusive rights to freedom, the Bible, and the American flag. John Avlon's new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the Web and in paperback. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun. For more of The Daily Beast, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Drop It Like It's Hot! - Harvard Crimson Posted: 21 Feb 2010 01:22 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Are you deeply regretting having chosen that philosophy course with 200+ pages of reading a week? Are you wondering what the heck you were thinking when you decided to add a fifth course onto your workload? We've all been there, and we all know the solution. Snoop Dogg had it right when he coined the term "drop it like it's hot." Turn in those add/drop forms by Monday, Feb. 22 (that's tomorrow), and you're good to go. If you're looking to replace an onerous course with a more manageable substitute, we've outlined two options for you below. (Finding classes that are still accepting students was harder than we expected!) These are the courses that you'll love to love—and that your GPA will love too. Folklore and Mythology 173: "Handmade Objects and Their Makers" This class meets only once a week, and for the midterm, you'll get to do an "interview-based biographical study of an individual or group who makes things." If you like doing things with your hands, or watching people do things with their hands, then this class is for you. | W. 4-6. Link. Chinese Literature 130: "Screening Modern China: Chinese Film and Culture" This is the perfect class for those looking to dive into something new. Designed to appeal to those with no prior background in Chinese cinema, the course will illuminate new ideas in a fun and film-tastic way. | T., Th. 1. Link. Have another course on your mind? Make sure to check with the professor first—some faculty members may say that they won't admit new students at this point because too much material has already been covered. If you do manage to find a class that will let you in, remember that there's also a $10 add/drop fee. But that's a small price to pay for a happier semester. Of course, the other option is to skip the fee and choose one of your courses to take pass/fail—those forms are due tomorrow as well. Photo courtesy of Brian Gosline/Wikimedia Commons. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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