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Sept. 11, 2008

An interview I did regarding the impact of 9/11. God rest the souls of those who died as a result of those attacks. 9/11

Plug: America’s Next Great Pundit Round 2

My friend Zeba Khan is through the first round of voting, and round two is open for voting. Her email is below. Please support her again. Hello Everyone, Thanks to your help last week, I moved on to Round Two in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” Competition. This week the five remaining contestants had to blog. My aim was to put out quality over quantity and I hope I achieved that. Here are a couple links to pieces I wrote: http://views.washingtonpost.com/pundits/contestants/zeba.khan/2009/11/an_idea_for_detroit.html http://views.washingtonpost.com/pundits/contestants/zeba.khan/2009/11/great_expectations.html Now, I am writing again to shamelessly ask for your vote. Voting is happening now until…

Prince of Persia and Orientalism

This New York Time’s commentary ties Edward Said’s classic opus, Orientalism, to the game Prince of Persia. Then it stops. Good idea. Lousy implementation. “C” at best.   We do not see the rest of the world except as a mythologized “us.” To see the world as being composed of difference, means we have to acknowledge difference at home, and perhaps internalize the challenge to our uniqueness. It is far easier to control and encourage emulation of “us,” than to deal with difference. Orientalism, Prince of Persia