Today is Opening Day for baseball in New York City and I love this time of year. We enjoyed six weeks of Spring Training and now the season proper opens today — we hope, if it doesn’t rain all day! — and the time for renewal and freshness is now.
Continue reading → We Measure Morality in Baseball: Opening Day 2011
We live in a cruel world. There is suffering. There is a lack of human compassion. We prefer the preservation of the self over the welfare of others.
We read to experience what we do not know. We write to share what we think we understand. Learning and sharing constructs leads to literacy and thus begins the formative memes of a shared, and cogent, morality.
UPDATE: 48 Minutes After Original Publication.
This article deserves an immediate update and, unlike the New York Times, my updates and corrections always go at the head of my articles and not at the very end. Half an hour ago, I heard from Mark Jeftovic at easyDNS and I received permission to republish his email here:
Hi David,
I really appreciated reading your article on the entire “wikileaks” fiasco. It was nice to finally see the entire account related by a third party and basically get it right, from beginning to (almost the) end.
Really great, I am very grateful to you, thank you.
The latest development is that as of a few hours ago, we were added to the DNS delegation for wikileaks.ch and expect the .org to follow:
http://blog.easydns.org/2010/12/05/easydns-added-to-wikileaks-dns-delegation/
What a weekend.
Thanks again.
-mark
Here is my reply to Mark:
Hi Mark!
Thanks for the email! Your response means a lot to me.
You are handling this so well — it’s like you very own special “Mainstream Media DDoS attack!” SMILE!
I was going to mention in my article that the best revenge would be for you guys to step forward and actually back up WikiLeaks as a DNS fallback — but I didn’t want to put you in any more wondering jeopardy — how great it is that you guys stepped into the fray and put your backbone into WikiLeaks? I love it! Now I wonder how soon you’ll hear from Joe Lieberman and the frantic frenzied?
Do you mind if I add your email as an update to my article?
I thank you!
Best,
db
Long Live easyDNS!
ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
If there’s any sort of notion of morality in the mainstream media — don’t ask easyDNS.net to stand in the pulpit to testify — because easyDNS have wrongly been nailed to the cross to bleed for the WikiLeaks debacle, all because of rotten and lazy reporting that basically leaves easyDNS for dead.
Continue reading → easyDNS and the Lack of Mainstream Media Morality
In our ongoing, national, economic convalescence, I wonder if the result of such monetary heartsickness is a de-evolution of our moral presence into unsacred totems. I ask this in the recovering wake of the tepid immorality of Rev. Cedric Miller — who urged his flock to give up Facebook because it was a “portal to infidelity” — only to be proven to be a sinner himself.
Continue reading → Lust in the Age of Facebook: Where Have All the Moral People Gone?
In our current, bloody, culture wars — values and morality are given passing play — but few people address the loss of virtue as a necessary component of a righteous humankind.
When I was a teenager in school, the kinds of games I played involved a pair of Italian brothers who were plumbers that enjoyed trekking out to alternate universes and rescuing kingdoms from the tyranny of large angry Lizard kings. I was dressed the entire time I played this game (on the Nintendo, naturally!) and so were my friends when they came over to play it. The important thing is that none of us got pregnant while playing the games we played and risked the early mental and emotional incarceration than an unplanned pregnancy requires of a life.
There’s been a lot of humming chatter lately about the reported ability magnets have on influencing morality stored in the brain. We have always claimed the mind is a machine and memory is but a cog in the process of grinding us into definition, and this new magnet research causes concern for the unwitting, easy, malleability of who we believe we are forged to be in situ.
Yesterday, Nebraska passed two curious abortion laws. The first bans abortions after 20 weeks because fetuses “feel pain” and the other requires a woman have “mental health” screening before she can abort. Both laws were construed to prevent Nebraska from becoming the next Kansas and to press forward the Right to Life Crusade back into the Supreme Court to overturn Rove v. Wade.
Yale University just released a new mandate governing morality and values on campus between a horny faculty and a titillated undergraduate student body.
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