Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Dana Gioia on the Loss of Reading I came across this video clip last night--it's worth watching. The Chairman of The National Endowment for the Arts talks about trends that have him concerned about civic participation in America. 11:32:49 PM    comment []

New Quotes page I knew it was inevitable. I'd have to have the quotes over here at The Daily Hopper one day. I won't bring them over all at once, but chances are in the long-haul, I'll just have the whole web site over here. I'd put all of it at jberryman.com, but I can't seem to figure out the ftp. The final straw was that in preparation for a class I teach at Abilene Christian University this January, I came across a Victor Frankl quote that speaks to the opening of the class. Reminded me of Francis Schaeffer (and a lot of other people, it seems--just go google the phrase) saying, "Ideas have consequences." Sometimes I'll post the quotes here on the home page first, but most of the time I'll just stick them over under quotes. Check it out... 8:13:35 PM    comment []

Ideas have consequences... "I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers." Victor Frankl in The Doctor and the Soul 8:02:42 PM    comment []

PopCult Magazine Cool web site put together by a guy who can't find a journalistic magazine examining pop culture just how he'd like, so he did it himself online. PopCult Magazine is intelligent, cool, and just plain fun. Great lists of stuff on the bottom end of quality--calls it "The Bottom Five." Just the titles of the sections are cool: odd glimpses, obsessions, passing fancies, critical mass, and material whirl, and the FAQ section simply called, "huh?" Definitely a site I'll be referencing in the pop culture section of my faith and arts class this January. Worth checking out... 12:45:10 AM    comment []

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