 KATRINA & THE LOST CITY OF NEW ORLEANS by Rod Amis
New Orleans is the Lost City of America.A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Fund. The cooks, servers and restaurant workers of New Orleans have provided fabulous times and memories for millions. Now we must remember them in their time of need.
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 Arab Blogging by NATASHA TYNES
Washington, DC, USA - From commenting on the latest political events to challenging taboos and crossing red lines, citizen journalists, or bloggers, across the Arab world are busy trying to make themselves heard. Analysts agree that Arab bloggers have made sure to get a big share of the blogging pie in a time when citizen journalists across the globe are scrutinizing the mainstream media with their subjective take on the political and social arenas. "Today there is an active Arab blogosphere, raising its voice loudly. It has benefited from the freedom of expression made available electronically, and made known its opinion on the most important political issues," wrote Lebanese columnist Jihad Al-Khazen in his January column in the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat. Media analyst and associate professor of Political Science at Williams College, Mark Lynch concurs. "[It is] definitely an explosion though an uneven one," said Lynch, proprietor of the popular blog Abu Ardvark. "I've been amazed at how quickly both Arabic and English language blogging has developed. I've been particularly intrigued by the various portals and aggregators that have been developed," pointed out Lynch, adding that he currently reads more Arab blogs than American ones. "[This] wouldn't have been possible not too long ago." The words "web" and "log" were first mated in 1999. Since then, blogs have mushroomed into million of sites around the world dissecting life as we know it. The Arab blogosphere arrived to the scene some years after the early establishment of this revolutionary medium. It started small a couple of years ago with few blogs here and there. Nowadays it is a large-scale, effective scene, with new blogs popping up all over the place. Many give blogger Salam Pax credit for initiating the blogging concept in the Middle East. His accounts during the Iraq war gained him a world-wide popularity. He later turned his cyber scribbles into a book and then into a movie. Salam Pax's writings prompted other Iraqi bloggers to write down their accounts, thus creating an extremely vibrant Iraqi blogging scene with contributors across the political spectrum. "Blogging is taking off this year in the Arab world," said Isam Bayazidi, an Arab IT expert and founder of popular blogging portal Jordan Planet. ... READ MORE  Chuck Norris is Back! by G21 READERS
THE WORLD - According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can actually roundhouse kick you to yesterday. Oxygen requires Chuck Norris to live. Achilles was supposedly the greatest warrior of all time, but he died because of his weak spot, the Achilles tendon. There is no Chuck Norris tendon. Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress. Wilt Chamberland once claimed to have sex with over 20,000 women during his lifetime. Chuck Norris calls that "a slow Tuesday". A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his name cured the man's blindness. Unfortunately, the first, last and only thing this man ever saw was a fatal roundhouse kick delivered by Chuck Norris. They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take sh *t from anybody. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. ... READ MORE We know you're lazy. Here's a button for a quick translation of this page. Just click on the flag for your country. You're welcome! |
ROD AMIS ON THE VITALITY OF MOVEMENTS: 16 February 2006: What's the fastest way to recognize the calcification, the loss of dynamism, in any movement? Picture the Brezhnev era Politburo in the old Soviet parades; think about the warhorses of the former civil rights movement or the raging fogeyism of the once glorious feminist movement and you'll have an idea of what I have in mind.
Any group where leadership is dominated by the geriatric has lost its leadership because it has no view of the future. It has no visible stake in taking a dynamic path. This is the true dilemma of the American Left.
Without the taste of being indestructible that only comes from youth - another form of intoxication, this one provided by hormones - a movement lacks the fire to face the challenges of change.
The mature and elderly, challenged by health problems, family responsibilities and career obligations, are poor fodder for the meat-grinder of social change.
The biggest problem of leadership challenging the Left in the United States I that it long ago abandoned its young. This lack of concern for the future, this repudiation of whose world it is today, was especially egregious within the Black community.
The stances of too many Black preachers and, most eminently in recent years, Bill Cosby, have been anti-youth. ... READ MORE
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