Archive for April, 2008

Activism is the Agent of Change

Today, at the town hall meeting in Muncie, Indiana, Barack Obama answered a question from an attendee, about how to go about ’selling’ Obama to skeptics when canvassing for him, in an interesting way. He said that this campaign is not about him, and ’selling’ him is not the right approach to convincing people to [...]

Dave Matthews and the Dalai Lama Tonight - Live Webcast

Dave Matthews performs tonight at Key Arena in Seattle to benefit Seeds of Compassion, a new initiative focused on addressing the social and emotional well-being of children at the local and the global level. Their objectives are summarized in the following statement from their well-designed web site: “…we seek to bring social and emotional learning [...]

KING, History Channel Special

The ads for this special caught my attention because they were set to one of my favorite U2 songs, Pride (In the Name of Love)!, but I missed the cable premiere of the show last Sunday (2nd hour of the show conflicted with John Adams and The Tudors). Luckily, there will be an encore presentation [...]