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Naval Academy graduates listen to President Obama, then throw hats
(GIF video via Jim Long / NBC News)
In a speech to the graduating class...
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Libertarians?
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“The kids want to know why the Boy Scouts have this policy. We talk about how people have a variety of beliefs and values. We also talk about how...”
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One good way to rile up a District movie audience is to show them a WikiLeaks documentary. At the Landmark E Street Cinema on Tuesday night, a brief but heated argument broke out in the audience — while the movie was still playing — over the involvement of Adrian Lamo, the former hacker who turned in Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in 2010 for leaking classified material to Wikileaks. Director/writer/narrator Alex Gibney’s skillful work…
Currently watching.
@frontlinepbs - Watch: “the man who Knew.”
A fascinating documentary.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There
Watch: Netflix
WHOA!
“When Jews looked around the world and they saw Hitler and they saw Stalin and they saw Mussolini, they felt mighty glad that the man who was running the United States was Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” says Jonathan D. Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. “Nevertheless he was a consummate politician. And there were things that he felt deeply about, and he made sure they happened. Arming America secretly was one of them. Helping Britain was one of them. Saving Jews was not one of them.”
Read: ‘50 Children,’ About Saving Jewish Children, on HBO - NYTimes
PBS Documentary Looks at Right-Wing Promotion of Ignorance Through Textbooks.
(Sierra Voices) - Texas textbooks determine what children learn nationwide.
“I believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark … somebody’s got to stand up to these experts.” (Don McElroy, former member of the Texas State Board of Education).
Well, no wonder the GOP wants to defund PBS. Where can I send them a donation??!
What is this?
It’s called The Revisionaries. It was EXCELLENT! Watch it, in its entirety here.
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(via jyoungblood:torstenbergler) Official Napster Documentary Trailer
Billy Corgan knows!!
“The great Oscar-nominated AIDS doc “How to Survive a Plague” is on Netflix streaming.” - @daveweigel
Whoa!
THE DUST BOWL
Premieres November 18 and 19,
8:00–10:00 p.m. ET on PBS
Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us—a lesson we ignore at our peril.
Whoa! Trust me, check this out.
I think people want the appearance of truth. They don’t necessarily want the truth.
