December 2008 Archives
Maher Slammed Tanks
By Jeremy Rosenberg
December 29, 2008
A few days ago, this blog wrote about a recent visit with James Underdown, executive director of the Center for Inquiry Los Angeles. Underdown wanted to talk, among other topics, about "Religulous," comedian Bill Maher's recently released major motion picture.
Here's a sort of coda, or hyperlink without the actual hyperlink, to that post….
Permalink Discuss (3 Comments)Rand's Smart Art
By Jeremy Rosenberg
December 23, 2008
Dorothy, We're Not at The Heritage Foundation Anymore.
Two minutes into this blog's recent tour of the Rand Corporation, and what do we see?
Art by Fred Tomaselli.
That's Fred Tomaselli (!) -- great, provocative, pill-pasting Fred Tomaselli. Here's an excerpt from a 2006 ArtInfo profile and interview:
Permalink Discuss (1 Comments)James Underdown Gets 'Religulous'
By Jeremy Rosenberg
December 19, 2008
The last time this blog and Jim Underdown, executive director of the Center For Inquiry - Los Angeles passed some serious time together, this was the result.
"On the longest day of the year, a man dressed in black rides shotgun in a cheap white Toyota, stuck in post-theater gridlock, trying to exit the Crystal Cathedral parking lot.
"All right," he says. "Which one of these good Christians is going to let a Jew and an atheist in?"
Permalink DiscussThink Tank Taxonomy II
By Jeremy Rosenberg
December 15, 2008
In this recent post, we noted our early, still-being formed thesis about the classifications by birth - if not current operations - of various think tanks in town.
In another post , we introduced the far more authoritative text and project of Dr. James G. McGann.
Today, we'll try and further pull both of the above together.
Permalink DiscussMore KCET Local Blogs
404 City- Read Ophelia Chong's latest post, My New Year's Resolutions
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Cakewalk- Read Erin Aubry Kaplan's latest post, One For the Books
Movie Miento- Read Adolfo Guzman-Lopez's latest post, Mission
Pixeltown- Read Pixelbot's latest post, Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-31
The Other Room- Read Kevin Ferguson's latest post, Footage of the L.A. County Gift Card/Gun Exchange
Where We Are- Read D.J. Waldie's latest post, 15. Winners and losers in the city's oldest game
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