I've been considering starting to go to the local UU Church since I got here. It seems like a good place for community and nourishing my spirituality. Unfortunately, I have not had time to go by there yet.
It was through the local UU mailinglist that I found out about the Knoxville shooting a couple of weeks ago. I was shocked. I was even more shocked to hear about the possible influence of hate radio on this incident.
Bill Moyers has a great video on this here:
http://ping.fm/bSgyC
Then David Foster Wallace died, and our department sent us his commencement speech at Kenyon. I was blown away by this guy, and surprised I'd never heard of him before. I started rabidly reading as much of his work as I could find. The first thing I stumbled upon was http://ping.fm/N3wim a piece called "Host", about, you guessed it, shock-jocks.
"Host" is a very long piece, heavily footnoted in Wallace's signature style, but it is a very acute and entertaining piece. I hope you all have time to watch and read these items, and maybe even let me know what your thoughts are.
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