A Monumentous Occassion

It isn't everyday that I agree with the President. And even today isn't really one of those days, but it might be as close as I'll ever come.

Yesterday the President was in California talking about immigration, which has quickly become a hot button issue for the mid term elections. But according to a snippet in the Economist, "President Bush went to California where he called on Congress to pass a bill giving official status to illegal immigrants and said punitive measures being pushed by some congressmen were 'unrealistic'."

For those of you who don't know, there are Congresspeople out there pushing for a wall to be built along the border of Mexico as our new immigration policy. While on the liberal side some are calling for the legalization of all the illegal immigrants currently in the US, also a bit extreme. It was nice to see the President walk the moderate line, and in reading his immigration plan I saw some good points as well as some things I was unsure about. But all in all it was refreshing to not feel a sense of dread while reading about my President.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/

tags: Bush

Justice: Supreme Court Style

These are the Supreme Court Justices:

Roberts
Kennedy
Ginsburg
Souter
Breyer
Scalia
Thomas
Stevens
Alito

This is just one of those things we should know.

tags: Supreme Court

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/biographiescurrent.pdf

Media as Conversation

According to the newest issue of the Economist blogs are changing the face of media interaction. In fact its no longer just news, its a "conversation" between friends, strangers, etc.

The long and short of it is that the newst forms of media, including blogs such as this one, wiki sites, vlogs, and folksonomies have become the new and to some preferred way of gaining knowledge. The wiki principle, as stated in the Economist article, is the idea that many minds are better than one.

What I find so interesting about all this is the idea that for one moment, to one reader, a complete stranger who could be next door or a million miles away might write the article or post that offers up a lifechanging view on any number of subjects. And its kind of nice to know that maybe this is an area free of corporate agenda and filled with just pure unadulterated opinion in its most untainted form.

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794156

Read and enjoy, especially if you're interested in the long term ramifications of our ever evolving relationship with the media.