published by Jonathan on Thu, 08/24/2006 - 20:24
In last night's episode of 30 Days, Jennifer, a pro-choice administrative assistant who works part time at a womens' health clinic spends 30 days at His Nesting Place, a Christian, pro-life maternity home. It struck me how caring and loving both Jennifer and the pro-life couple who ran the maternity home were. Most disturbing were the images on posters used by some of the protesters as well as the parents of the teenager who died after a botched illegal back-alley abortion which they blamed on their state's parental consent law. Choice or not, it just reminded me how ugly abortion is.
published by Jonathan on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 21:16
published by Jonathan on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 21:32
FYI - there's a video here of Stephen Colbert on 60 Minutes.
published by Jonathan on Thu, 08/10/2006 - 21:58
Last night was the third episode of the second season of 30 Days. The first of the season featured a legal immigrant from Cuba (who is now a minuteman) living 30 days with an illegal immigrant family. In the second episode, an out-of-work computer programmer travelled to India to train for and re-take his outsourced job. In last night's episode, an atheist lives 30 days with a Christian family. These shows are pretty interesting. Of course, nobody changes their point of view over night. It's nice, though, to see people with opposing points of view spend some time together, walk in someone elses shoes, communicate instead of talk AT each other, and find some common ground. Set your Tivo for the 30 Days marathon (7 episodes) this Saturday on FX (starting at noon eastern).
published by Jonathan on Thu, 07/27/2006 - 10:50
If you watch TV, you must have seen that goofy Head On commercial. Apparently, it's at least partly intentional. Get the story from Slate here.
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