Category: society
Understanding Separation of Church & State
It never ceases to amaze me how short-sighted Americans are when talking about religious freedom. A county in Florida is revisiting a policy of allowing bibles to be distributed at schools after a group exerted its religious rights by wanting to distribute coloring books featuring cartoon characters performing satanic rituals and drawing pentagrams.
Separation of Church and State protects your religious freedoms, people.
From the archives
Veterans Day, 2014
The video that started it all
A related story from the early 80’s: I remember sitting in my CalArts design class waiting for our instructor Bob Winquist to arrive. After apologizing for being late he mentioned he had been a visitor on the set of a video shoot in LA – the very one- and marveled at what a genius that “young man” was.
Fear and Ebola
Our cable news and politicians are doing an excellent job of whipping up a disproportionate fear of an Ebola epidemic. Never mind that there are plenty of other epidemics to really be worried about:
Hong Kong demonstrations continue
The “Umbrella Revolution” enters its sixth day with the demonstrators continuing their peaceful demands for China to honor their one country, two systems promise in 1997. Hopefully the Chinese government won’t resort to previous tactics but I admit I’m not optimistic.
cartoon from archives 6/30/2004