Month: June 2012

When the SCOTUS decision came down, Kath and I were in a car somewhere in Pennsylvania en route to New York. Radio reception was for crap since we were in the mountains. So Kath, using her iPad, went to the website of the New York Times. Here is, from rough memory, what the paper of record had up a couple minutes after ten o’clock:

The Supreme Court has released its decision on health care. We are reading the decision and will provide a detailed report once we are confident in the accuracy of our analysis.

Meanwhile at that exact moment, both CNN and Fox were busy providing reportage about the decision that was 180 degrees wrong.

All reporters love scoops as much as anyone else, but I think television is more interested in getting news first while newspapers–at least the good ones–are more interested in getting news right.

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This is the cover to “Run, Layla, Run.” In this issue, Layla has 23 minutes to get across, on foot, a gridlocked, blacked out NYC, so she can save a teenaged girl’s life. I just LOVE this cover and am sharing it with you.

Mitt must be so proud!

Seriously, the GOP was in a much better spin position if SCOTUS had punted health care. If they voted it down, Romney gets to say, “We were right and the Supreme Court said so! Vote for us!” But they supported it, and so the GOP gets to add it to their wish list of things they want to take away, including a woman’s right to choose and gay marriage. If you want things that other people care about to go away, vote Romney!

As opposed to the Democrats who, if it had been voted down, would have been hard-pressed to be heard above Fox leading the GOP “Whoop! Whoop!” chant.

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I have not yet had the opportunity to see “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway, mostly because I’m incapable of planning an evening of theater a year in advance. Which is what’s required if you don’t want to spend as much for a pair of tickets as you would for a family vacation at Disney.

But the other day on Youtube I was hunting around for the first fifteen minutes of the Tony awards (which I’d missed) and came across a video from the previous year’s Tonys of Andrew Rannells as the show’s “Elder Price” performing “I Believe.”

In that song, the conflicted Price musically recites a litany of his deeply held beliefs, all of them accurate reflections of Mormonism.

It generated many laughs from the tony Tony crowd, but what I found intriguing were the things that the audience did not laugh at. It prompted me to consider the thought process of audience members when faced with Elder Price’s belief system.

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