Author Archives: Karl

Reading both sides of the debate

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Too much ‘us vs. them’ Too many people claiming the left or the right has all the power and influence. Too many people feeling supressed when obviously they are not since they can post whatever the feel like it out here.

Lots and lots of hypocracy.

Read both sides of the debate.

The Far Left

The Nation
IndyMedia

The Democratic Left

The American Prospect
Democrats.com

The New Democrats

New Democrats Online (my bias stands here)

The New Republicans

The New Republic (doesn’t quite fit – where does this one go? Is this a magazine at the absolute center?)
Bull Moose Republicans (sometimes my bias stands here too)

The Republican Right

The National Review Online
The Weekly Standard

The Far Right

townhall.com
WorldNetDaily

Now most of the blogs I visit fall into one of these categories. A wide mix. Most link to like blogs not even recognizing the existance of the other side except as the enemy.

A real blog service would be someone covering the news from both sides of the story. But I don’t have the time.

Where do you fall in this spectrum? Be honest.

New Philly Skyline?

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This CityPaper article makes a point of the two new skyscrapers under consideration for Philly and their viability.

A decade ago, the Philadelphia Orchestra was still playing in the Academy of Music, erected in 1857. That was when the powers that be decided the city had crossed the line from charming to pathetic and resolved to build a new state-of-the-art performing arts center. Last December, the Rafael Vi?oly-designed Kimmel Center, with its Y2K-vaulted glass roof, opened to rave reviews. The French newspaper Le Monde gushed, ?Philadelphia opens a concert hall that Paris can only dream about.?

The cause of putting Philadelphia on the contemporary architecture map keeps picking up steam. As of this month, two Center City high-rise office buildings have been announced to open in 2004 and 2005 respectively, each designed by a brand-name architect: Robert A.M. Stern and Cesar Pelli.