Intellectual combat
This might be a fun way to spend a sweltering summer weekend-- watching Gore Vidal/William Buckley debates on YouTube. A new documentary film highlights the network-televised rhubarbs, dust-ups, and altercations during the 1960s and '70s between the alternately-epitheted "Crypto-Nazi" and "Goddamn Queer."Jesus, fellas. Get a room already.
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Incidentally, despite what television news indoctrinates, political arguments ultimately have winners and losers. Buckley later changed his mind on the issues of Civil Rights and Vietnam.
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If you enjoy watching Buckley get owned on television, spend some time watching this debate with Noam Chomsky. This debate took place on Buckley's public broadcasting program. Vidal was allowed on network commercial television. Chomsky wasn't... and isn't.
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Chris Hedges, author of a the literary essential Death of the Liberal Class, talks to leaders of the new black radical movement. One of the founders of St. Louis-sourced Hands Up United explains why young people have lost faith in corporate capitalist black leaders like Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Michael Eric Dyson, and why he views the oft-maligned Cornel West as a "big brother" of their movement.
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"Hey @NBCNews... fixed this one for you."
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If you want there to be fewer abortions, why the hell would you support the defunding of the nation's #1 provider of comprehensive sex education and affordable reproductive health services?
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Fetal tissue research will ultimately be used to cure hideous diseases like ALS, Parkinson's, sickle-cell anemia, and Alzheimer's. We need to think now about how we can logistically withhold the cures, when the time comes, from those who opposed fetal tissue research.
posted by CM @ 9:49 PM
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