“I can call a president of the United States anything in the book but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank. No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.”
— Helen Thomas, discussing her resignation as a White House Correspondent for Hearst Newspapers after being video taped discussing her pro-Palestinian views
Have you seen the cartoon where the hero repeatedly avoids disaster by a whisker? Meet Julian Assange. He looks more like the evil nemesis to Austin Powers than a man who strikes fear into the hearts of world leaders. Tall, skinny and pasty white, he makes you want to rush him to the hospital for an infusion of Vitamin D. Whatever he is, Australian Julian Assange has captured the imagination of the world with his release of 250,000 diplomatic cables from the US Department of State.
Many wonder how he’s able to fly unimpeded in this day of increased airport security. He regularly travels internationally with the ease of a foreign dignitary, yet in April Wikileaks released a classified video of a US Apache helicopter firing indiscriminately on Iraqi civilians. Two Reuters News Service employees were shown killed in the attack.
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice…
Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.
your heart is a whore and love is just lust. you want what you can’t and you can’t cause of fear.
Broken Social Scene – It’s All Gonna Break off of Broken Social Scene
Put your thinking caps on, because it’s time for a quiz. Which one of these situations can result in a technical foul during an NBA game:
A. Kobe Bryant, in frustration, bounces the ball with extra force after being called for a blocking foul, resulting in the ball accidentally bouncing into the second row of seats
B. Dwight Howard gets tangled up with a defender and throws an elbow into his opponent’s chin to “create separation”
C. Lebron James gets called for a questionable charge, and deals with his disappointment by grimacing and jogging away from the referee
