March 2012
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Peer Pressure? How About, Like, Fighting to Death?
HERE’S a pop math quiz: “The Hunger Games,” a best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins about children killing children, is recommended for readers 12 and older. The “Hunger Games” movie, which shows kids killing kids, is angling for a PG-13 rating when it hits theaters March 23. To complicate matters, many readers under the age of 12 are dying to see the movie. Meanwhile, Jennifer Lawrence, the...
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SXSW Interactive 2012: Saddle Up and Geek Out
Every year, thousands of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and techies migrate to Austin, Tex., for South by Southwest Interactive, a whirlwind week of discussions, panels, parties and breakfast tacos and the latest innovations from the start-up world and tech industry.
The circus kicks off on Friday. The New York Times will be on the ground, playing around with the newest apps and services,...
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African Critics of Kony Campaign See a ‘White...
As my colleagues David Goodman and Jennifer Preston explain, a viral marketing campaign to raise awareness of the suffering inflicted on African children by the warlord Joseph Kony has dominated social media conversations this week, despite concerns that the young Americans behind it might be spreading factual inaccuracies and wasting donors’ money.
While much of the backlash reported in the...
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Why 'John Carter' Is Loads Of Fun (Think Jason and...
Read the entire piece from Mark Hughes in Forbes HERE.
Let me just start by getting something off my chest, before I explain why you should see John Carter. If anyone feels too jaded to have any fun, or tries too hard to pretend they’re too “cool” to like anything anymore, they should just stop professionally reviewing movies. Why subject yourselves and your readers to the repetitive (and...
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“Without any hesitation, Jesus suddenly speaks to the man with the withered hand....”
– Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith by Bill Hybels (discussing Jesus healing the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath from Mark 3).
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With 'Mouth To Snout' CPR, 'Mushing Mortician'...
This story broke Wednesday in the Anchorage Daily News, but it has too much going for it not to pass along.
Monday night while competing in Alaska’s Iditarod dog sled race, Scott Janssen’s 9-year-old husky Marshall collapsed.
“Janssen raced to the dog,” the newspaper writes. “Marshall did not appear to be breathing.”
“I know what death looks like,...
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Why the Student Loan Situation Is Worse Than We...
The latest report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows how dire the financial situation has become for college students with outstanding loans.
According to numbers released by the bank this week, 1 in 4 borrowers with outstanding student loans had a past-due balance in the third quarter of 2011. Those figures are higher than most previous estimates because, in its recent...
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Kony 2012: Make an Informed Decision
As you respond to the trending viral “Kony 2012” phenomena, stay smart and get informed. I’ve watched the video and it is clear the Invisible Children folks are well-intended. To balance the emotional appeal of the Kony 2012 campaign, take a moment to do some research and soul-searching. Here are two articles to look over; many more are on the web. Study, reflect and pray and...
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