Facebook Friday Favorites
My facebook friends have AWESUM posts. I limit myself to under ten, that way I choose only the best to maximize your entertainment, political ire, and/or your general amazement.
This week Howard Zinn and JD Salinger passed away and my Facebook is filled with Who Datting Saints fans. I’ve spared you from the Saints links. Here are some of the more interesting picks:
1. Instant Chewbacca — a new take on instant rimshot.
2. Jeff and Erin’s EPIC Wedding Trailer — a wedding I want to go to!
3. Salvador Dali on “What’s my Line?” — A surreal bit of old black and white television.
4. I Just Remembered Chris Matthews was White — Great response to Chris Matthews. The author talks about “luxurious ignorance,” i.e., white people’s obliviousness. Good read.
5. JD Salinger dies (NPR) — I loved Franny and Zoey better than Catcher in the Rye. What a curious man he was.
6. Letter to the Editor, Daily Reveille (LSU student paper) — A depressing manifestation of how the corporate model infects and degrades higher education. Philosophy, comparative literature, sociology, history, and anthropology are antiquated, obsolete and unnecessary. Jeez.
7. (Louisiana) Regents pare programs — and another one bites the dust.
8. How idiotic arguments enter the political mainstream (This Modern World) — I’d laugh if it weren’t depressingly true.
9. NYT Howard Zinn obituary — What an amazing man.
10. Cornel West on Obama — Criticism of Obama’s economic policies.
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