Monday, July 01, 2013

Coachean Feed: No more racism, rights of foreigners, women in movies, homophobia and a Wilde treat.

More links of interest to the debate community.
  • Thanks to SCOTUS for explaining to us that racism is over. Meanwhile, Six Words: 'Black Babies Cost Less To Adopt'. This is some world we live in.
  • I've always been disappointed with people who have suggested, around various debate topics, ideas like the one that non-citizens should have the right to vote, because the inherent illogic demonstrates a pretty firm lack of understanding of the meaning of both citizenship and voting. Still, We Need to Protect the Rights of Foreigners, as this short think-starter piece explains.
  • Casting Call: Hollywood Needs More Women Movies are predominately male, no doubt for all the same reasons as just about every other industry, and this article catalogs the details. But I wonder why, down the street, so to speak, book publishing is predominately female, written by, edited by and read by. Go figure.
  • A single-slice article, Hollywood's refusal to stand up to Alec Baldwin is shameful does raise the issue that homophobia may have an acceptability, if you will, unlike racism or antisemitism.
  • Stephen Fry Reads Oscar Wilde’s Children’s Story “The Happy Prince” Well, that would seem to be self-explanatory. 20 minutes or so of pure joy? Fry's reading of Hitchhiker's Guide is spectacular and, of course, he narrates the British audios of the Harry Potter books. And he's Stephen Fry. 'Nuff said.

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