Aaron Brethorst (Page 85)

Ivy League Admissions Policies

It strikes me that anyone capable of this sort of inane stupidity should never have made it into an Ivy League school in the first place: The scene: A play at Princeton’s Berlind Theater needs a line-prompter. A group email seeks volunteers. To mi...

Echo Chamber Alert

In case any of you care, here are the blogs I’ve found most interesting and relevant to my life over the past few weeks: Bert Stephani - Confessions of a Photographer - Great easy-to-follow discussions on off-camera lighting. Dare Obasanjo - 25...

Jul 02, 2008
Politics

Where's the Beef? Fighter Plane Edition

Wesley Clark said the other day “‘riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down’ is not ‘a qualification to be president,’” per US News and World Report, and countless other sources. As you can see in this video from TPM Media, the media immedi...

Jul 01, 2008
Politics

Obama's brilliant when it comes to religion

Let’s face facts: the majority of Americans are not like me. Accordingly to religioustolerance.org, over three quarters of the United States (i.e. about 225 million Americans) are Christian. About 3% follow other faiths. 14% of Americans are, more...

Monty likes one of my pictures

John Montgomery, my old boss from Popfly, gave me some great props on his blog earlier today. God bless the blogger echo chamber: blogging about blogs about me.  One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst. For the longest time I ...