Silicon Graffiti

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News, technology, politics and pop culture, from veteran blogger Ed Driscoll of www.eddriscoll.com.

Episodes of Silicon Graffiti

    • Play Weimar? Because We Reich You - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      Weimar? Because We Reich You

      Our latest Silicon Graffiti video was inspired by one of the key themes in the late Allan Bloom's 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom wrote that by the middle of the 20th century, American universities had essentially become enclaves of German philosophy. As a result, "the new American life-style has become a Disneyland version of the Weimar Republic for the whole family," according to Bloom. Last year in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman famously asked, 'Can Greeks Become Ger...

      • Release date
        May 6, 2012
      • Runtime
        06:05
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      March Madness

      Hey, is this mic working? Is the camera on? At last -- we’re back with our first Silicon Graffiti after a long hiatus, with a whirlwind look at some of the lowlights President Obama and the left suffered in March: ObamaCare at the Supreme Court. Premiere Medvedev transmits the secret message of Double-Oh-Bama. Obama’s budget goes down to defeat…Zero to 414. The high gas prices we’re currently paying, and a look back at how Tom Brokaw (and Obama) rooted for them. Just NBC the deceptive edit in ...

      • Release date
        Apr 12, 2012
      • Runtime
        07:30
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      Forward, Into the Past

      In last week's video , we explored how the progressive movement of the 19th century set the stage for what Tom Wolfe dubbed "Starting from Zero," in which millenia of knowledge could safely discarded and the CTRL-ALT-DLT keys be pressed to reboot mankind.What could go wrong? Well, other than the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, WWII, Communist China, Communist Cuba, Communist Vietnam and Communist North Korea.Fortunately though, America managed to avoid a complete Start From Zero, and Europe and Ja...

      • Release date
        Mar 16, 2011
      • Runtime
        07:28
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      Starting From Zero

      our latest Silicon Graffiti video, the first of a two part series, in which we look at several attempts by the left to, as Tom Wolfe would say, "Start from Zero," and hit the CTL-ALT-DLT keys on western civilization. We'll explore: The rapid social and technological gains western civilization was making in the 19th century before......The arrival of Marx, Nietzsche, and other nascent "progressives," to upset mankind's Etch-a-Sketch.Nietzsche's 1882 "God is Dead" aphorism, which ol' Friedrich d...

      • Release date
        Mar 10, 2011
      • Runtime
        08:05
    • Play Steer the Coverage - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      Steer the Coverage

      We kick off another year of our Silicon Graffiti videoblog with a look at Old Media's response to the horrific shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). For anyone who was on Twitter at the time the news first broke, it was quite a sight watching old media’s narrative emerge in real time even before any of the basic facts of the story were known.But this was far from the first time that a narrative was preformed—or very quickly assembled in the wake of a shock event. We try to place the MSM'...

      • Release date
        Jan 26, 2011
      • Runtime
        09:20
    • Play Merry Christmas from Ed Driscoll.com - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      Merry Christmas from Ed Driscoll.com

      I'm back in the biodome, to ward off all the global warming swirling around me. But will it hold up as well as the Minnesota Vikings' Metrodome Stadium did this month? Tune in and see!

      • Release date
        Dec 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:18
    • Play Silicon Graffiti: Blog World 2010 - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      Silicon Graffiti: Blog World 2010

      Interviews with Hugh Hewitt of HughHewitt.com, Scott Monty, the Ford Motor Company's new media guru, Brian Reich of the Learning Channel who discusses their upcoming show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," and Lt. Col Andre Dean on the US Army's use of social media. Plus more from Vegas!

      • Release date
        Oct 25, 2010
      • Runtime
        09:18
    • Play Harry Reid: Democratic, Bureaucratic, Gaffe-o-Matic - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      Harry Reid: Democratic, Bureaucratic, Gaffe-o-Ma...

      As James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal likes to note, the Democratic Party has, over the years, had many powerful orators. Andrew Jackson is often attributed as saying, "One man with courage makes a majority.” Franklin D. Roosevelt comforted the nation when he said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Harry Truman famously said, "The buck stops here.” And John F. Kennedy reminded Americans, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”Needl...

      • Release date
        Aug 17, 2010
      • Runtime
        06:36
    • Play The Cold Civil War - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      The Cold Civil War

      As Victor Davis Hanson wrote at National Review regarding the now disgraced General Stanley McChrystal, “If an officer cannot figure out Rolling Stone, how can he understand the Taliban?”But then, these days, a commander always has to secure both the real and the media battlefield if he hopes to win. Or as Gerard Van der Luen of American Digest wrote in May of 2009:The Media is how America fights its civil wars. In this war at least half the country is both under-served and is painfully aware ...

      • Release date
        Jul 5, 2010
      • Runtime
        12:07
    • Play 1969: The Death of Modernism - Silicon Graffiti on Blip Silicon Graffiti episodes on Blip

      1969: The Death of Modernism

      In 1973, Patrick Moynihan said, "Most liberals had ended the 1960s rather ashamed of the beliefs they had held at the beginning of the decade." The 1960s began with a presidential election between conservative cold warrior Richard Nixon…and the surprisingly conservative cold warrior John F. Kennedy. In terms of the similarity between the two candidates, and the public they represented, this was a high point in national unity.The assassination of JFK began a process that ultimately shattered th...

      • Release date
        Jun 8, 2010
      • Runtime
        08:24
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