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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Jewish Home?

Bettina Tizzy calls Jewish Home "one of the sweetest places I have seen geared to faith in Second Life," and to be sure there are several superficially soothing features at this installation. But it is also deeply disturbing. The little synagogue at the top of the hill is dark and delapitated. The pews are in disrepair, and you can't sit on them in any event. Outside, there are some dance balls and the soothing sound of birds chirping with flowing water. But there is also a flaming cross labeled, "burned at the stake." There is a bridge leading to a red door. Open the door and enter ...... Is this sweetness, or is it terror?

Visit Jewish home and decide for yourself.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Television Sucks!

New research shows that television is the greatest consumer of human life, literally an angel of death. You think our education system is failing? It's not the system that is failing, it's the individual decisions of citizens to tether their minds to a totally passive medium for more than five hours every day. This is a voluntary form of slavery that is a scandal and an outrage in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Read more.