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from CNN
LEFT BIAS
Stan Lee, the colorful Marvel Comics patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero storytelling -- and saw his creations become a giant influence in the movie business -- has died. He was 95. Kirk Schneck, an attorney for Lee's daughter, tells CNN the comic giant was taken by ambulance from his Los Angeles home on Monday morning to Cedar's Sinai Medical Center, where he later died.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
From X-Men to Deadpool: Stan Lee's Marvel movie cameos – in pictures
The chairman and face of Marvel Comics’ first cameo was in a Hulk TV movie in 1989. Since 2000 the Stan Lee cameo has become a feature of each film.
From X-Men to Deadpool: Stan Lee's Marvel movie cameos – in pictures
The chairman and face of Marvel Comics’ first cameo was in a Hulk TV movie in 1989. Since 2000 the Stan Lee cameo has become a feature of each film.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Ethnic Nationalism Gave Georgia Freedom. Now It Needs Civic Nationalism to Survive.
The consensus is strong, however, that civic nationalism, with both its cultural and credal components, is the national glue. Ethnic nationalism may work to break free of empire, but it does not work in a multiethnic state, which is what Georgia is. Georgians again last week demonstrated a love of freedom and democracy; they must now become civic nation-builders.
Why the Berlin Wall Finally Came Down 29 Years Ago
While the West enjoyed prosperity and personal freedom, the East had fallen into an economic and political morass. The communist façade of power and authority cracked and the people’s natural desire for freedom, dammed up for more than 40 years, burst forth. It collapsed because of the Reagan Doctrine, which applied economic, political and strategic pressure (including the Strategic Defense Initiative) on Moscow. Democracy triumphed in the Cold War, Reagan wrote in his autobiography, because it was a battle of ideas — “between one system that gave preeminence to the state and another that gave preeminence to the individual and freedom.”
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Ethnic Nationalism Gave Georgia Freedom. Now It Needs Civic Nationalism to Survive.
The consensus is strong, however, that civic nationalism, with both its cultural and credal components, is the national glue. Ethnic nationalism may work to break free of empire, but it does not work in a multiethnic state, which is what Georgia is. Georgians again last week demonstrated a love of freedom and democracy; they must now become civic nation-builders.
Why the Berlin Wall Finally Came Down 29 Years Ago
While the West enjoyed prosperity and personal freedom, the East had fallen into an economic and political morass. The communist façade of power and authority cracked and the people’s natural desire for freedom, dammed up for more than 40 years, burst forth. It collapsed because of the Reagan Doctrine, which applied economic, political and strategic pressure (including the Strategic Defense Initiative) on Moscow. Democracy triumphed in the Cold War, Reagan wrote in his autobiography, because it was a battle of ideas — “between one system that gave preeminence to the state and another that gave preeminence to the individual and freedom.”
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from Laudable Practice Blog
"THE KNOT OF ALL CHRISTIAN SOCIETY": HOOKER, CONFORMITY AND THE PEACE OF THE CHURCH
"... because in all alterations, and specially in rites and ceremonies, there happen discords amongst the people, and thereupon slanderous words and railings, whereby charity, the knot of all Christian society, is loosed; the queen's majesty being most desirous of all other earthly things, that her people should live in charity both towards God and man, and therein abound in good works, wills and straitly commands all manner her subjects to forbear all vain and contentious disputations in matters of religion, and not to use in despite or rebuke of any person these convicious words, papist or papistical heretic, schismatic or sacramentary, or any suchlike words of reproach" - from the Elizabethan Injunctions, 1559. Perhaps a defining aspect of Hooker's The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie is how it cherished and protected the peace brought to the ecclesia Anglicana by the Elizabethan Settlement. As an example of this, we can his defence of the particular aspect of the Settlement indicated in the above extract from the Injunctions
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
VIRTUE AND THE WOMEN OF OLD HOLLYWOOD
By Sarah McCullough Cornwell: Aristotle wrote in Nicomachean Ethics that in philosophical inquiry — or really any pursuit — you should be like an archer and know precisely for what you are aiming. In that spirit, I intend for this post to be the first in a series in which I interpret classic female characters in old Hollywood films as exemplars of the seven classic virtues, namely those virtues that are used to combat the seven deadly sins Dante observes in his journey through the Divine Comedy. I thought this particular line of investigation would be helpful to me as a mother raising a newborn daughter. And it sounds fun. I did not take the opportunity to read anything by Dante until I was married. I was intrigued by the rich symbolism found in the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, but was particularly struck by the idea of having certain characters from history act as guides. With this in mind, to introduce my daughter to the seven classic virtues long before she is able to read Dante, I will enlist the help of other guides: Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, and Jean Arthur, among others.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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