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SeaWorld is a Great place to be and the new rides they built like Manta My kids always beg me to go it is just and great place to be and i experienced it just by looking at the park it seems like once ur on a ride its an Adventure

Can you even buy this bike or other bikes like this style in the US?

I LOVE BELLA! SHE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKIN HOT!

in UK it'll release this summer.
probably shortly after in US. not sure.
but soon enough it'll come :D :D

Excellent post thoug.

This must be really hurting.

Wow wish we celebrate the same way here.

Thanks for sharing these amazing pics.

Lol I am up for trading.

Customers will love it, while competitors will hate it.

Nothing wrong with pic.

They simply look awesome.

I am getting obsessed with your blog. It is so good.

Thanks for sharing all the pics. It is incredible fun.

Nice video.

I really have no idea who would play next year. I think the best way to tell would be to stay on top of upcoming albums by big bands. I mean, Radiohead didnt even release In Rainbows last year until February or something. That was long after the lolla dates were announced. So the best guess for whos gonna play would be big bands that are about to release albums that have a big buzz.

I stumbled on this post while doing some research and I realize I'm a little late to the party, but figured I'd give my two cents as a Millennial (22 years old, fresh out of college) and hope it went through anyways.


That article was infuriating. The kids they spoke with were infuriating. The conclusions drawn by the author about us were infuriating.



I don't know who those kids are who don't mow lawns because "mowing lawns does not get you into Harvard," but growing up I had to mow lawns AND get a job. Every one of my friends had a summer job, most worked during the school year as well.



Sure those kids exist, but they're the kids who can afford not to have a summer job because their parents pay for their summer expenses. It's a class thing.



What I think Baby Boomers forget about our alleged narcissism is that they created it!! We grew up being hovered over, coddled, and worried about by our parents and now that we're out of the house, our parents are worrying that they didn't do an adequate job preparing us for the "real world."



I don't mean to be so angry here. But I don't think that the rise of a generation raised on the internet is the demise of the Republic and our economy. Maybe we haven't been criticized enough growing up, but we can learn, everybody does.



From a Millennial to Baby Boomers: Please, please, please stop worrying about us. We'll figure things out. We always do.

Add Michael Brown, Craig Bellamy, Joey Barton, Nicolas Anelka, and Deco to the list.

Another nonymous,

So sorry for your loss - you and your family are in my prayers.

kevin,

If I painted you with too broad a brush, I apologize. But there was no need "caricature" your comment. I'd be perfectly open to hearing you explain how saying that you "cannot be convinced" shows even the slightest openness to dialogue.

As far as the difference between "direct responsibility" (I did say "direct", and its an important word here) and culpability (I'm using "cause" and culpability" in similar ways here, and perhaps that is confusing) - in anything that happens, there are direct causes and indirect causes. In this case, the direct cause for the shooting is an extremely disturbed man (Adkisson) who decided to vent his frustrations by picking up a gun and shooting a bunch of innocent people with whom he apparently disagreed. But indirect causes are the things that contributed to the event, even if they didn't actually make it happen.

I think this should be clear a this point - and my argument (and Detweiler's, I think) is that talk radio (and, I believe, the kind of "discussion" of politics and religion in our country that they represent) are an indirect cause of events like this one. They create an environment in which it is easier for events like this one to happen. Some also argue that a lack of gun control laws are also an indirect cause - I'm not interested in that debate here, but its another example of an "indirect" cause.

It seems to me that you have two issues here - that you think Detweiler is not balanced enough in his condemnation (focusing on conservatives), and that you don't believe talk radio, etc. contributes anyway. I don't think there's "selective quoting" going on here - whether he's done it to your satisfaction or not, its clear that he implicates both sides to at least some level in this kinds of tragedies, because he makes statements to that effect in his article. But I'm surprised that anybody would not see that things like talk radio do contribute to problems like this one - although I recognize that what seems clear as day to one person often seems very different to others.

Well kevin, thanks at least for making it clear that you're not very interested in dialogue here - since you're stating from the outset that you cannot be convinced. If all you're interested in here is proclaiming what you think without listening to the other side, this'll be my last comment.

But I disagree strongly that talk radio in no way contributes to events like these. In no way does that mean they're directly responsible, nor do I think Detweiler is arguing that they are. And I think talk radio is simply one manifestation of a much larger problem - that fact that political and religious debate in our country has become enormously divisive precisely because people are more interested in making the other side look stupid or evil so they can bolster their own case, than in actually seeking to understand someone else's position - even if you disagree - and working towards common ground. In such an environment, of course deranged people will look among those who are portrayed as their "enemies" for scapegoats for their anger and frustration. And Detweiler points out how this has happened on both sides - shootings directed at people for their conservative or liberal beliefs. We can argue until we're blue in the face about which side contributes more to any one situation - but I think that all of us, from both sides of the fence, who support this type of vitriolic debate are culpable.

Kevin,

As has been pointed out, Detweiler did indict the entire talk radio establishment - its plainly there and has been specifically pointed out to you.

He does specifically mention conservative talk radio in East Tennessee - do you think its possible that's because they were the only ones talking about it? Does there have to be equal culpability for both sides in everything that happens? It doesn't sound like Adkisson probably listened to more liberal sources, so I'm not sure why Detweiler should have mentioned them more specifically in relation to this particular event.

But again, he was quite clear that he thinks both sides are part of the problem. So I don't really understand what you're so upset about, unless you're just presupposed to be upset with the things written on this blog.

Several people have already responded quite well to kevin's comments - and they're correct to point out that Detweiler rightly criticized both the left and right for the vitriolic rhetoric that typically characterizes talk radio.

Nice guy, you realize that Detweiler already addressed your issue, right?

"While ultimate responsibility resides with the shooters, we can also connect these deaths to too much toxic talk radio."

Nobody is saying that those radio personalities should be held responsible for what happened. But we do need to ask if the kind of environment talk radio too often creates and sustains (where those who think differently than you are demonized and viewed as "enemies") contributes to these tragedies. The tenor of "conversation" about politics and religion is partially to blame for these events, and all of us who view other people, created in God's image, as our enemies, and seek to villify rather than understand, bear some responsibility as well. Of course the primary responsibility rests on the shooter - but we've made it all too easy for deranged people to view others as the source of their problems, as Detweiler points out.

Thanks for a well-written, thoughtful reflection, Craig. I would hope that even those who don't agree on every point would still be able to thoughtfully consider what you say.

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