School of Life Monday:Who are you to say that?

Getting agreement on big questions has become ever harder because we either put our trust in science or insist that everyone’s opinion is equal to everyone else’s. That might not be quite true

In the Crossfire: Nuclear Energy (CNN)

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader questions the national security aspect of having nuclear power plants. Watch how nuclear energy supporter Michael Shellenberger, who was featured in the film, Pandora's Promise, responds.


FUCK NUKES!

Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly's debate

Since the initial post, as you can see above it's been taken down, but here are some highlights:

Baldwin, Brando, Belafonte, Poitier, Mankiewicz, and Heston Talk Civil Rights, 1963

On August 28 1963, the same day Martin Luther King delivered his landmark “I have a dream” speech, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, writer James Baldwin, director Joseph Mankiewicz, and actors Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, and Sidney Poitier, sat down in a CBS studio to discuss Civil Rights in America. It was an historic moment, one that would be difficult to imagine happening today, amongst Hollywood’s glitterai - especially when Mankiewicz let’s the cat out of the bag:

“Freedom, true freedom is not given by governments; it is taken by the people.”

Thanks, DangerousMinds

Classic Chomsky vs Buckley

I love these two comments that were left on you tube:

"what bill o'reilly does is play yahtzee, buckley played chess... thats how i'd compare him to the hacks holding shouting matches these days"

"most of you presume to call buckley an idiot, etc, but you have not read his writings and for this matter [k]no[w] nothing about him except from what your feeble minds can obtain from it.... obviously chomsky is tenfold sharper than him on principle and history, but buckley is a respectable intellectual"

As I agree both these guys are incredible intellectuals, it's just that Buckley was a total asshole and Chomsky perhaps the most decent man alive.

bonus:



double bonus, Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley: