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Awesome video musing on Michael Jackson's life and the practice of making media out of one's life. How do you retain a true sense of self worth - of your right to be loved for more than what you can put out there for people to consume - when all of our lives are becoming media? [Hat Tip: Feministing]

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When I watched Green Acres as a kid, it always struck me as really weird that Oliver could force Lisa to live in the country even though she hated it and wanted to go back to Manhattan. Looking back, that word "wife" is used as the reason - as he grabs her and pulls her kicking and screaming into a life she doesn't want. [Hat tip to Feministing for all their great vintage sexism coverage.]

It makes my blood boil to know that pregnant young women are being lied to in so many ways in order to prevent them from choosing abortion - and with my tax dollars.

Andy and I had quite the adventure in New York this week - first visiting his family on Long Island and then running around The City for a few days: Best parts of the trip - celebrating Andy's mom's birthday, walking all the way from Midtown Manhattan to Chelsea, back through the East Village, across the Brooklyn Bridge and into Dumbo, and seeing "Journey to the Stars" at the Hayden Planetarium.

Join Ted Johnson (@TedStew on Twitter) and Maegan Carberry (@maegancarberry on Twitter) and I as we discuss the train wreck (or not?) that is Sarah Palin, Al Franken's new job, Obama's substance and style in Moscow and the continued media circus over Michael Jackson's death.

During my time at Pomona College, I was privileged to know two beautiful, brilliant sisters. The eldest, Naveen, was in my class, while her younger sister Sheri studied abroad and graduated with Andy's little sister Susan. Both women were kind, funny and scarily intelligent - a credit to their family, the college, and to one another. Their potential was limitless - both women had the character and talents to be of great benefit to the human race. Now, only one of them will get that chance. Sheri Sangji died earlier this year after a horrific and entirely preventable laboratory accident at UCLA.

I went on an awesome backpacking expedition with a few close friends this week. Sometimes, in this technology-saturated world we live in, it's awesome to get off the grid. As we crossed into the Alpine Lakes wilderness and found our way to Talapus Lake, we saw a pair of camp robbers, the cute little bluejay like birds that are brazen enough to make a living stealing food from camp sites. They were so comfortable with people that with a little coaxing, and a little food, they landed right on our hands: We named the two Icarus & Daedalus, since one was much more cautious than the other. Scoble has been talking a lot about how much drama can unfold on the Internet. To be sure, the unplugged world can be dramatic - but every so often, I think Robert should come one step further down from the speed and have a good hike in the woods. In fact, I think it would do all of us rectangle gazing geeks some real good.

when I was younger, I was not particularly good at dealing with stress. Fortunately, I love sports, and a hard cardio workoutcan do wonders for stress relief. As I got older. I also discovered that alcohol is an excellent stress reliever as well. The problem with dealing with stress in these ways, is that you can't spend your entire life, working out and drinking. The latter obviously comes with serious consequences, as you get older. The hangovers that I had when I was 21 pale in comparison with the hangovers. I experience at 26, to say nothing of the hangovers. I would imagine, I might feel at age 50. the former also has its problems. Sure, when you're healthy intense cardio workouts are great for you. Unfortunately, unless you are Cal Ripken Jr., this will not be an option for you every day of your life. Given my father's track record. I can expect the occasional lapse in my ability to run shoot hoops play soccer and the like. Currently, I am in one of those lapses. And currently on dealing with some stress. My job is a roller coaster. While I do enjoy having the occasional weekday off working in dozens of languages. The occasional frantic deadline, and constantly learning new things. The trade-off is that my job is very unstable. Some weeks. I've made as much as 12 or $1300. On others as little as five or 600. The effectiveness is financial stress. I'm not really sure how much money to expect to make. And so I fluctuate between feeling like I have all the money in the world. And like there's no way, I will ever save any money. Throw into that. The fact that my girlfriend makes more money than me, and enjoys the finer things in life. Also throw in that five living situations in two years. Three jobs in four years, and the fact that I've never once kept the budget my life. Another stressor, as being sex and women. Or rather lack thereof. My current love notwithstanding my experiences with women have been at best, underwhelming and at worst, deeply deeply disappointing. Why have my dealings with women being so disastrous. A couple reasons: unreasonable expectations. This usually manifesting itself in the dating portion of my love life. Anxiety in the bedroom. Why such anxiety, why. Cluelessness coupled with insecurity, does not make for a good combination. Perhaps if I read more on the subject. Rather than line relying on movies in pornography or the off-color comments of my peers. I would have not felt that a). I needed to rock for world beyond believe and be) that I've no idea what do what she would want me to do. And it never occurred to me that I should ask. Quite the contrary, that would get in the way of the hot steamy passion, which was absolutely necessary at all times with no break whatsoever. With my current lover. I did not take the time to understand fully her needs. Focusing instead on what her needs quote should be." As a result, I feel frustrated with how far I've advanced actually at this age. Of course, I learned differently than most people. But while that's an obstacle. The most important key to learning is a burning curiosity. I sell, having spent the past three months. Without my normal stress mechanisms, something has changed. I have no choice but to confront that which stresses me directly. I cannot simply kill stress by running in a way or drinking it under the table. Instead, I am forced to examine these things that cause stress and deal with them a mature adult fashion as clichéd as that may sound. This first means not only a budget, looking carefully at what money does finding cost-saving measures, and doing the little things. Like finding out how much like spending plan works. Or how much part-time paid time off, I have and actually using it. Keeping up with expenses, as they come rather than all at once. I have a hand tendency to be she and purge. So to speak with finance is and stress in general. This may be sustainable with large amounts of exercise and alcohol, but certainly not without. And it has the unfortunate consequence are leaving year without too much money and a frustrated girlfriend. So I'm trying this talking aloud about my problems and writing them down at the same time, with Dragon speak. It's important for member that I'm very bright, and I can solve problems. The problems I have now pale in comparison with the ones who a few years ago so, how to solve these problems for having a plan is a big part of stress reduction. First, mink.com, and some discipline for finances, books for sex, listening to my girlfriend. Second, balls. It's always easier to stay home and go to meet up. A party or organize karaoke, but you have to do the things. All this writing is exhausting song to take a break. I'll do some were no time had

Looks like I'm not the only person who believes that the Ayatollah and his butt buddy Ahmadinejad are happier than pigs in you-know-what over Michael Jackson's death:

The Jackson story, paired with Farrah Fawcett's death and Sanford's own scandal, “without a doubt” poses a danger in Iran, according to Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and former Bush administration official. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Rubin said the issue was already a hot topic among his colleagues in the Middle East. “To put it this way, the gods are not in favor of hope and change,” Rubin said. “Unfortunately in Iran people are going to prison, but when a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it, the pressure goes away.” “Its' a sad commentary that celebrity still trumps national security in news coverage, but that’s the world we live in,” he said.