Holocaust Education in Britain, Great Virginia Tech analysis, Lasusa Links, Dan Grobstein File
April 23, 2007
An hysterical email whipped around the Internet last week about elimination of Holocaust education in the U.K. to avoid offending Muslims. If you check out the Telegraph and the Daily Mail, you can see that the situation is bad, but not as bad as you'd read.
Jon Carroll's Virginia Tech analysis says everything I can imagine wanting to say about the incident. Executive summary: it is a tragedy. Let us mourn. But it has no larger meanings. There are no lessons to be learned.
Tom Lasusa surfs the web so you don't have to: People committing eternal sin on YouTube , Will Ferrell in "the Landlord", Got 800K? You can own an island, Recreating vintage photos of London, Photos of fast food in ads and in real life, "60 Things Worth Shortening Your Life For" (8. Butter. 16. A night on the town with Kiefer Sutherland. 49-59. The 18-Hour Vegas Vacation), Miss America 1944 Takes on Would be Theives, Tom and Jerry they ain't
Dan Grobstein File
- ARTS / MUSIC | April 18, 2007
Remaking Old Hits to Earn New Money
By JEFF LEEDS
By re-recording decades-old hits, artists are keeping a much bigger share of licensing proceeds.
- MAGAZINE | April 22, 2007
The Way We Live Now: You Are What You Grow
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Will this year’s farm bill make us fatter and sicker