Jun 30, 2009 in We Think
Last Thursday, June 25, 2009, Farrah Fawcett, the actress who came to international fame in the role of private investigator Jill Munroe, on the teevee show “Charlie’s Angels” passed away. She will be honored during a private funeral service, today, June 30, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (more…)
Jun 27, 2009 in We Think
Michael Jackson has performed live onstage around the world, with nearly every popular artist over the past forty years
Michael Jackson fans, fans who love the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and fans of Briney Spears look at these performances.
Michael Jackson died on Thursday, June 25, 2009. He was 50 years old. Jackson, who began his music career at the age of 9 with his brothers in a group known as the Jackson 5, is an influential international super-star performer whose contributions have come to revolutionize the entire entertainment industry.
Jun 26, 2009 in We Think
See rare footage of an interview with Michael Jackson and his brothers when they were the Jackson 5.
Jun 26, 2009 in We Think
Michael Jackson,the world’s most innovative, the creative influence on popular music without equal in the last forty years, is dead.
Michael Jackson, the international super-star who began his career at age nine singing with his brothers, died yesterday at age 50. He will be remembered for his contributions to music, dance, charity, performance, world peace, celebrity and fashion for years to come. (more…)
Jun 16, 2009 in We Think
We think the latest brouhaha over a couple of jokes told last week by late night comedian David Letterman is much ado about a whole lot of nothing.
Letterman told a joke about Alaska’s governor and her family; he told a specific bad joke about one of her female children. He made a joke about the governor’s appearance, too.
We agree his jokes were not funny. A couple of them were in bad taste. Unlike radio personality Don Imus, David Letterman does not have a history of making coarse, off color remarks about young girls.
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May 13, 2009 in We Think
DOCTOROW’s LAW:
“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, it’s not being done to your benefit.”
Cory Doctorow, an activist for technology issues, is also a science fiction novelist of renown, and a blogger.
We recently discovered video of a presentation he made earlier this year, during the O’Reilly Tools for Change for Publishing Conference, on the subject of Digital Rights Management or DRM. (more…)
May 11, 2009 in Justice, We Think
Over the past weekend the White House Correspondents held their annual dinner. Only 14 presidents, beginning with President Calvin Coolidge in 1924, have attended this grand affair.
The White House Correspondents Association is in charge of the planning of the event. After all it is their dinner where reporters receive awards for journalism and students receive scholarships. They choose the hotel venue, the menu and the evening’s comedy host. It is a tradition since the 1940s for the correspondents and their guests-usually actors and other entertainers along with politicians to be entertained by the witty observations of the evening’s featured hired speaker. (more…)
Apr 21, 2009 in We Think
Lee Camp has made a video commentary on the subject of the latest musical phenom Susan Boyle. (more…)
Apr 18, 2009 in We Think
We love music at YouThinkWhat! Our tastes are very eclectic.
We’ve a new addition to the list of singers we love. We join the growing group of worldwide fans of Susan Boyle of Blackburn, Scotland, U.K. who entertained during her audition last weekend for the show Britain’s Got Talent. Her rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” from the hit musical “Les Miserables” brought the audience to its feet in total approval and support of her ability.
Susan Boyle, the British spinster singing sensation, made a recording for a charity event ten years ago in 1999 at age 37. (more…)
Apr 14, 2009 in We Think
“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast”
wrote the popular late 17th Century English poet and playwright William Congreve.
A friend to, and a contemporary of Jonathan Swift, William Congreve’s words have not been more true since they were first written and first spoken on stage in his tragic play The Mourning Bride in 1697.
With all the drama, trauma, wars, rumors of wars, natural weather disasters and the economic hell some predatory humans put other humans through; making it unnecessary to experience punishment in an afterlife when there is hell on earth as reality. The existence of an organization known as Playing For Change which offers welcome musical relief is a soothing balm for our world weary souls. (more…)
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