Category Archives: Culture
Penn State Investigation
Watch Your Step
Jon Stewart explores inequality inside Occupy Wall Street. OWS didn’t quite achieve a classes society but it can point with pride to a few classless people. You can watch one here but it’s kind of gross.
Show of Hands
When a cartoon stings a politician in the United States the politician will sometimes ask the cartoonist for the original drawing and hang it on his wall. Apparently in Syria they hang the cartoonist on the wall. Ali Ferzat didn’t earn a spot above Assad’s desk but he was beaten by thugs and had both hands broken in honor of his work.
iWorld
Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO at Apple, a company he started with Steve Wosniak 1976. The company now reportedly has more cash on hand than the U.S. government. Ok, bad example, you probably do too. Anyway, Jobs is responsible for the personal computer as we know it today, as well as smart phones, iPads, movie animation, the music industry, and God knows what else.. He really did change the world. Here’s how Walt Mossberg, the WSJ tech guru, put it,
…Mr. Jobs, in multiple stages of his business career, changed global technology and media in multiple ways on multiple occasions. And that changed the way people live.
