Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Green Cathedrals: Environmentalism's Mythological Appeal

Ed Driscoll; Just as the Big Three car manufacturers, with a once-monolithic hold on American consumers, seemed unaware that the public wanted a wider choice of cars (until Japan listened and responded), Pauline Kael’s in-crowd of coastal elites has, if anything, become even more clueless and resistant to emerging changes in the culture and dissemination of information. How clueless? In 2004, Jonathan Klein, the former executive vice president of CBS News, described blogging as “a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.” Last May, Time-Warner CEO Richard Parsons was quoted as saying, “The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war. The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion.” Just how did the mainstream media (“MSM”) become so monolithic and unresponsive in the first place? And how is the rise of “Weblogs” helping to establish a new, more “fair and bala...

Something very new here - I'm started publishing some of my photography in calendars. There are a few more projects in the works - but to start with I've made some of my scenic photographs of a recent trip to Heritage Park in Calgary available through LULU.COM . There is a sample of the calendar on the left. To preview the calendar - click on the link below to go to the Cole's Note's Storefront at Lulu.com and you can order your own copy if you'd like. Heritage Reflections 2008 by Coleman Cooper (Calendar) in Travel & Regional Hopefully this will be the first of a couple of different projects I'm working on that will make some of the material available to folks.

This really makes for a Friday Funny - a Congressman in the US suing God for the state of the world. However, he does get an answer. Not the one expected - but interesting nonetheless. "State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God last week, seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty for making terroristic threats, inspiring fear and causing 'widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants." Get the whole story and the response here: The Belmont Club: Deus ex machina

Thoughts for the day The Thoughts of the Great Japanese Philosopher - Mimotaku Mimomonoteshi AKA - Mimotakurinkato Rinkashime Mimomonoteshi There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Behind every great man there lies a great woman. And one in front of him as well if he's lucky. I like my Women like I like my cars...Stripped down and covered in oil. Suppose conventional wisdom to be a forest. I am chainsaw. You are squirrels. My aims are that of an Owl's. To whit to woo. Eh ladies? When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you. Beware the smile of a waiter. It means he's pissed in your soup. I wanted wine, women and song. I got a drunk woman singing. The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things. Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular an...

Bookworm Room : "The common thread binding the liberals’ willingness to relinquish control of their health care decisions, economy, education and business to the government is a manifest belief that the government’s collective wisdom trumps the intelligence of the ordinary person. The government, made up of experts and policy wonks, must be better at taking care of people than peoplecan be trusted to take care of themselves. (People, of course, being defined here as the Wal-Mart shopping, NASCAR loving, country-music listening masses.) And the surprising thing is that liberals cling to this belief, not only despite government’s repeated management failures over the decades, such as the failed War on Poverty or the failed care at Walter Reed, but also despite the fact that they are convinced that the administration now in charge of the government is the most evil thing since . . . well, since Satan!"

What can I say - I was out Hamster Dancing last night and didn't get the Friday Funny done. Everybody Hamster Dance now! About This Video Here we can enjoy a small selection of people expressing themselves in exotic/geeky dances from the film industry. The sound track is "Hamster Dance", originally made by Hampton the Hampster, and remixed by The Blue Man Group. Here is a small list of the films: The Emperor's New Groove, Some Like It Hot, The Music Man, Looney Tunes, The Blues Brothers, Garfield, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rush Hour, Batman Forever, Batman, X Men: The Last Stand, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Lost In Space, and many many more.