One danger is not remembering history and appreciating the sacrifices of our brave men and women in our Armed Forces. If the new administration has given any indication of its attitude toward our veterans, Obama skipped the American Legion's ball which honors the Medal of Honor veterans. This is the first time in 50 years that an incoming President has blown off these veterans.
But you can remember these veterans. A friend of mine, Brad, sent me a link to a P-51 pilot united with his aircraft of over 60 years ago. At the end, Brad points out that you can see a formation of P51's flying in a "51" formation.
Of particular interest was the description of the pilot, Jim Brooks, and his last moments on the ground with his crew chief - neither knowing whether he would be coming back that day.
In this Washington Post article, the news rooms of Time, Newsweek and other weekly magazines are going through more massive change.
The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses. It is nothing less than a survival strategy.
Morale in both shops has been devastated as staffers complain about a blurred identity, lack of direction, management snafus and outsourcing to big-name writers that has left them wondering if reporters still have much of a role.
Action:Protest Google's Committee Censorship by Making Other People Aware
If you use Google and rely on it for objective search results, then you may be completely in for a surprise. In this article, Google's staff decides on the search results. They decide what you get in your results rather than a computer algorithim.
