| Not having grown up here, I do not personally hold the affinity with Michael Jackson that many of my friends and family members do.
I must confess to amusement as the Washington elite (e.g. NPR broadcasters) read lines like "among Jackson's greatest hits were the song "Beat It" [said with a mix of disdain and incredulity]."
BUT this was the bees knees, a piece from the NYT about Chief Justice Roberts, earlier in his career when working for President Reagan's Office of White House Counsel responding to a request to send presidential letters on two occasions. My favorite piece of stuff argumentation is as follows:
It is also important to consider the precedent that would be set by such a letter. In today’s Post there were already reports that some youngsters were turning away from Mr. Jackson in favor of a newcomer who goes by the name “Prince,” [emphasis added, LOL!] and is apparently planning a Washington concert. Will he receive a Presidential letter? How will we decide which performers do and which do not?
Read the whole thing here.
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| Hilarious clip - REALLY with Seth and Amy, mocks Arizona State...lovin it!
editors note: I know this happened a month ago, but laughing at ASU is always timely
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| They choose recently deceased Jonas Hodges (of 24 fame) to MC their fundraising dinner!
Disclaimer: no political commentary intended, just funny!
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| Written on 6/3...posted today...
Two elements of my day stand in stark contrast - an NPR piece I just listened to and the devotion I shared with our church staff this morning.
The NPR piece, was called "Remembering Tiananmen." Even though I wasn't very old at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was very aware of it. My Dad did a great deal of work in China (he was, in fact, one of the first Westerners allowed to visit the square after the massacre) and so the event was a part of our family discussion.
The focus of the NPR piece was that "a day the Chinese government would rather forget" had actually been forgotten by the next generation, because the government had scrubbed the history. One young woman they intereviewed reacted in disbelief when she was shown a book describing the ruthless crackdown.
It is striking to think that a woman who was perhaps only a few years younger than me at the time of the massacre, could not have even heard about what happened. My Dad, spoke to me - thousands of miles away - of blood stains and burn marks on the square that he had seen with his own eyes. Yet children in the same country were not told.
The devotion I shared this morning focused on the very different task that God gives to his people. Psalm 78:1-8 paints a glorious picture of what remembering means and what it brings about in the life of those who remember.
The Psalmist says that
[God] established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
The purpose of the remembering wasn't merely historical knowledge, it was...
so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God. So, remembering leads to hope, which leads to obedience. Those who do not remember are not faithful, not steadfast, stubborn, and rebellious.
As we hear remembrances of Tiananmen and realize many in China have not been told about the brutal crackdown of 1989, let us be energetic in making sure we are people who remember. Particularly those things that count into eternity.
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