Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Politics

  • GRITtv: The Politics of Video Games: Reality and Overreaction

    [blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/gdElgoPpRQI] Independent news media outlet GritTV has an intelligent discussion about war-based games withgaming bloggers. I've followed GritTV in and out for a few years. The volume of videos they upload prevents me from following them daily, or even weekly. However, this outlets shows us that you can get quality news media out of […]

  • The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Mosque-Erade

      The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mosque-Erade www.thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:350555 Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party The great absurdity of theopponents of the community center is is the talk about "sensitivity". The same folks who coined the term "politically correct" and related language to justify their unfounded […]

  • If he were president — Wyclef announces bid for presidency

    News says that singer Wyclef Jean wants to run for president of Haiti. This is a bad idea. Not only is it a tad egotistical of him, but I'm not under any impression that yet another U.S raised and educated leader will do Haiti any good. I wrote a section on Wyclef when I reviewed […]

  • YouTube – Obama Vs. Reagan: Who’s More Conservative?

    YouTube – Obama Vs. Reagan: Who’s More Conservative?. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILg1-H6oNuM&w=425&h=350]

  • io9 interview with Ken Macleod

    http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf This is an interesting discussion, also given that I just finished reading the Cassini Divison from Macleod. It was a good, if a little short, novel on how fleshy humans cope after the technological singularity. A flashback character in Ken MacLeod’s 1998 novel The Cassini Division dismissively refers to the singularity as “the Rapture […]

  • links for 2010-05-16

    So You Want to Be an American: 5 Circles of Immigration Hell | Cracked.com …when you make the legal pathway to something long, baffling and infuriating enough, many people are going to skip it in favor of the easy option. Even if choosing that option makes them a criminal. So are you part of the […]

  • links for 2010-05-03

    Our brains ‘make us empathise with people of the same race’ | Mail Online (tags: race culture social) The lesson here is that kids are born prejudiced, and it’s our duty to teach the next generation how to treat others fairly and without prejudice The Archaeo-Linguistic Ghost of Neo-Colonialism “Vernacular critiques, which assert a single […]

  • South Park censorship controversy: Not Without My Famous

    Last night’s episode of South Park saw the network  censor a great deal of content in a way not intended by the creators. The action suggests that the network was scared of backlash by radicals. It’s nice to Muslim brothers and sisters taking cartoons seriously. If only they would tone it down a little. Let me […]

  • My Pulitzer 2010 Favorites

    There are some really good picks for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. Dallas Morning News on the inequality between North and South Dallas. Cartoonist Mark Fiore on his awesome political cartoon shorts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCqQRflUWd4&w=428&h=343] Lords of Finance by Liaqat Ahamad. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2FVzw10BjA&w=425&h=344]

  • HR 3590, 4872 Passed

    I’m setting aside cynicism for the moment to congratulate the Democrats on passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Reconciliation act of 2010 . These bills are not what I would support ideally, a public option, but it’s great to see Democrats showing some courage after decades of capitulation to the GOP. […]