These are some hard hitting videos this week. They are each about 5 minutes long and worth the watch.
Hammoudi, subtitles so you’ll need to pay attention (ht. Chris)

Iraq: One Winter Soldier’s Tale (ht. Zach)

Noam Chomsky Sports Commentator, a bit heady, but scathing critique of our sports and entertainment culture

I asked Michael from The Ooze if it would be okay if I went ahead and made some badges and tried to put together a semi-official list of those who are part of the Ooze Select Blogger group. This will hopefully allow people to read a variety of reviews on the materials that we are sent. Basically the list of blogs below are bloggers who were selected by The Ooze to receive books from publishers and authors to review and blog about (obviously in hopes of creating interest and buzz …

About four years ago I was reading the paper in a small town in Minnesota. I read an article by Congressman Mark Kennedy entitled: “The Great Experiment” which discussed the sacrifices many soldiers had made to make this country what it is today. I felt the need to reply in this letter to the editor that you see below. I’ve left it unedited, but I’ll include further thoughts at the end. Surprisingly, the local paper published my letter the following week:
The Failing Experiment
I want to first of all thank Congressman …

(photo credit [photo not of me])
Here’s my basic premise: The person whose only interaction with people of a different cultural/ethnic group is in a serving/charity capacity is likely to form stereotypes about that group based on that limited and extremely isolated interaction.
I myself went to a fairly large, suburban, predominately white church during my formative high school years. I went on three “missions” trips while attending there to: Mexico, South Dakota and D.C. On each trip we worked with a different ethnic group: Hispanics in Mexico, Native Peoples in South …

Fathers and Daughters (ht. PEM)

Interesting visual message from a church service (8 minutes long, but you can get the idea early on) (ht. Gavin)

A moving testimony by Nancy (ht. Nate)