Blogcritics Editors' Picks: October 18 through October 24
Published October 28, 2006
From Asst. Music Editor A.L. Harper:
JJ teaches us that wine is more afraid of us than we are of it in her fabulous A Fear of Wine Bottled Up Inside You.
POLITICS
No picks this week.
SPORTS
From Sports Editor Matthew T. Sussman:Let me get this straight. There's actually a rapper named Fabolous? Who names a rapper Fabolous? Anyways, he was shot in the leg and Boston Celtics player Sebastian Telfair is involved or suspected of being involved or something, and Adam Hoff (who I believe was involved, if ya ask me) laid out the Fabolous/Telfair connection so that a guy like me who half-paid attention to this story when it broke could understand.
And it looks like the excitement of the NLCS — which I admittedly slept through until Game 7 — got to Indians/Reds fan Zach Baker. Hmm. Now I wonder if Tommy Lasorda ever set foot in Zach's kitchen wearing a tuxedo and consoled him.
GAMING
From Gaming Editor Ken Edwards:PSP Review: Metal Gear Ac!d 2 by Tim Weaver. Not your grandfather's card game.
PC Game Review: Battlefield 2142 by Johnny Rock. It's Battlefield, but with lasers.
PS2 Review: Bully by Jason "Njiska" Westhaver. It's like Columbine, only without the blood, guns and death... okay, it's nothing like Columbine.
SCI/TECH
No picks this week.
COMMENT OF THE WEEK
From Comments Editor Christopher Rose:Ms Toigo is blessed with both a clear-minded view of the world and a deft control of language, both of which make her articles and comments stand out in the ever-growing Blogcritics crowd.
Posted by Margaret Romao Toigo to 300 Million American Souls on 2006.10.21, 20:42:48 PM:
Sgtmajorbrad, when I write news articles, I make an effort to be fair and balanced. However, when I write editorials, I editorialize. In other words, this is an opinion piece, it's supposed to be biased. I don't believe in the pseudo-scientific concept of "race." We're all humans here, and we come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and styles. Cultural differences, which are often mistaken for manifestations of the archaic notion called "race," are based upon geography, not genetics. Resolving our immigration situation is not just a matter of compassion, it is a matter of economics, and our economy is not served by the reduction of our numbers, nor by the denial of the existence of 11-12 million people working 11-12 million jobs.
- Blogcritics Editors' Picks: October 18 through October 24
- Published: October 28, 2006
- Type: News
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Administrative, Culture: Arts, Culture: Media, Sci/Tech: Blogging
- Part of a feature: Editors' Picks
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Thanks for the pick, and thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on it.
Bout time you guys got these up. Not to be a grouse or anything--LOL---
Good stuff this week. But isn't it always?
-Glen
Thanks TV Girl (Jackie) and TV (and Film) Guy. I feel doubly warm and fuzzy now!
I know this comment is really late, but thank for the pick!!
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Thanks for the pick. I'm still sorting through all those books. As it turns out my eyes were a little bigger than my memory and I now have a big pile of doubles.