Archive for the ‘Culture’ category

Laughing at Advertising

June 18th, 2009

By Jim Vining

“I need to see that movie. It will make me laugh!” shouted my 5 year old son as we drove past a local movie theater.
My first thought, “Wow, he is a great reader!”
My second thought, “Wow, the advertisers already have him.”
I knew that it was time to act. It was time to defend [...]

Girls in Movies

June 1st, 2009

Over at one of the NPR blogs today, Linda Holmes had a great post titled “Dear Pixar, From all the girls with Band-aids on their knees.” In it she comments that although she loves their movies and the messages they portray, she would like it if for once a major cartoon was made about girls [...]

Abandoning Children

November 14th, 2008

Nebraska’s recent safe haven law was intended to allow parents to anonymously leave infants at a hospital without being prosecuted. The idea was to protect infants. But so far not one infant has been dropped off, and of the 34 children dropped off all but six were over the age of ten. [...]

Discriminating Against Children

October 22nd, 2007

I had originally posted this on my blog last summer, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss here. It’s a rant, a bit extreme, but focused on a very real issue.
Okay serious rant to follow. What is with our country moving towards more and more discrimination. Entire groups of people [...]