links for 2008-01-21

“Instead, in the course of exchanging e-mail, this tool called the cellphone instilled in them a desire to write.”

“This burden and legacy of fomenting bigotry out of fear and ignorance is borne by all of us. If no one takes responsibility, we all fail.”

“That a small minority in any group might say crazy things is not surprising; it is when the majority don’t dismiss them as crazy that you start to worry.”

“More than a week later, the film still resonates as a stunning cinematic experience, and the best rock show I’ve never attended.:

“It’s not OK to slip into flat memory of who Dr. King was, it does no justice to us and makes him to easy to appropriate.”