Learn from Violence?

• Sarkozy wants French children to study the Holocaust and identify with kids their age who were taken by the Nazis.

"President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped an intellectual bombshell this week, surprising the nation and touching off waves of protest with his revision of the school curriculum: beginning next fall, he said, every fifth grader will have to learn the life story of one of the 11,000 French children killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust." (NYT)

• Small minds think alike:

"A firearms dealer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Friday confirmed a bizarre link between the graduate student accused of killing five people at Northern Illinois University and the gunman in last year's deadly shootings at Virginia Tech.

A Web site used to buy gun accessories by Steven Kazmierczak is owned by the same company that operates a site patronized by Seung-Hui Cho, the company said."(CNN)

A Brief History of America:

Sexism in America

I'm not going to get too heavy-handed with the "deep thoughts" - at least for now. But given what the Democratic primary looks like this year, there is a lot to think about. I'm going to post some thoughts from time to time. Now is one of those times. I like Hillary (disclosure: used to work for her, and gained more respect for her every day), but even if I didn't, this sort of thing is absolutely unacceptable. If anyone talked about Obama's race the way they talk about Hillary's gender, there would be riots in the streets. As it stands, this kind of junk gets some discussion, but hardly the outrage it deserves. Two examples to think on (these are past events, but things like this happen every day, mostly off camera).

"Iron My Shirt":

Chris Matthews, retro sexist:

Life's Big Questions

Why does my Tivo keep suggesting "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"?

Now I Remember

Now I remember why this process is annoying. I wrote a post, and thanks to the wonders of technology, it was eaten immediately upon hitting "publish." Forget my insights, I'm posting this to cheer up:

A New Beginning

I've attempted to keep a blog in the past, and it's been annoying enough that I haven't stayed with it. I like doing it, it just feels too much like the journals I would repeatedly buy and not use throughout high school and college.

This blog is not going to be that. I'm going to add things and thoughts so they live somewhere, and hope that I manage to stay with it - I think the fact that I haven't been able to do this (online, on paper) might say something BIGGER about me, and I'm just not willing to concede the truth just yet.

Here we go...