There is something attractive about defrocking a figure of faith-and-family-values virtue, particularly one of great commercial success who has endeared himself to an endangered minority: the American middle class. The late Thomas Kinkade, who died of unnamed causes Friday, made an easy target. The self-anointed “painter of light” specialized in idealized scenes harkening to a more [...]
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High Contrast: Thomas Kinkade’s Art, Life & Controversy
Posted in art, media, notes on the human condition, tagged acclaim, aesthetic, American Dream, angst, appeal, art appreciation, art history, art world, artist, artistic merit, barriers, beauty, Bible, biography, Christian, church, clash, collectors, commercial, community, conformity, consumer, contemporary, contradictions, contrast, controversy, conventional, creative, creator, critics, culture, curators, cynical, death, debate, definition of art, dialog, discussion, disenfranchise, distain, disturbed, elite, esoteric, eye of the beholder, family values, fans, favor, fine art, folk artists, gallery, globalism, idealized, ideals, innocence, landscapes, lithographs, marginalize, middle class, modern art, narcissism, painter of light, paintings, passing, personal life, popular, portray, postmodernism, prints, redefine, self-absorbed, styles, suppression, themes, Thomas Kinkade, traditional, unconventional, what is art on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sen. Pearce vs. Cardinal Mahony: Leaders Behaving Badly
Posted in faith, media, notes on the human condition, politics, tagged abusive, ACLU, Americans, Arizona, ashamed, badly, behave, bill, border, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Catastrophizing, church, civilians, clash, Communist, comparison, comply, consequences, conservatives, controversy, crime, critic, criticisms, cross, debate, dialog, disappointing, dishonest, divided, divisive, documentation, drug war, ego, ethical, ethnocentric. stereotype, exaggeration, fear mongering, Federal, First Amendment, government, governor, higher calling, illegal immigration, intellectually dishonest, irresponsible, issue, Jan Brewer, law enforcement, leaders, liberals, librals, lies, Los Angeles, Lou Dobbs, Michael Smerconish Program, middle ground, misdirect, mislead, moral, narc, Nazi, neo Nazi, on the books, outcomes, personal, polarized, polemic, police, policy, political temperance, poor example, popularity, pragmatic, predators, prediction, profiling, protests, provocative, public interst, race war, racist, raise the bar, rat out, reality check, Robert Krentz, Roman Catholic, Russell Pearce, safety, SB 1070, senator, set example, shame, smear, speech, statesmanship, status, trash talk, truth, turn in, unfair, unforeseen, victims, violence on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When church and state leaders on opposing sides of a divide sling mud we all lose: Why Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce and Los Angeles Archbishop Cardinal Roger Mohony need to “think different” about how they debate immigration reform.
Joe the Plumber: The Real Untouchable
Posted in economy, media, tagged academic costs, advice, agency, ailing economy, American, Americans, analysis, Ann Pace, aspiring, back to school, Belle Wheelan, campuses, career, career change, cashier, cashiers, child, college, commission, competitiveness, continuing education, cost of going to school, create jobs, credential, critical, curriculum, Curt Eysink, customer service agents, degree, diminish, director, editorial, education, educational loans, electrician, employ, employment insecurity, engineering, failing, fields, fluke, forecasts, foreign, foreigners, Forgotten MiddleSkill Jobs, future, genius to succeed, globalization, governor, grad students, grades, Great Recession, growth projections, growth sector, H-1B, H1B, hands-on, higher education system, hire, home health aids, hope for, income, industry, inshore, insource, internationalize, invest, IQ, Jan Moller, Jindal, Joe the Plumber, labor, labor department, lobby attendants, loss, Louisiana, Louisiana Workforce Commission, low wage, machinist, math, mechanic, middle class, middle skill jobs, national outlook, New York Times, nobel winners, not enough, occupation, offshore, options, outsource, outweigh benefits, panacea, Ph.D, plumber, politically correct, prospects, public, reality check, reforming, report, representatives, requiring, right decision, rude awakening, schools, science, secretary, security, seeing red, seekers, service, service sector, should I return to school, silver lining, skilled, skilled labor, Skills2Compete, skillset, social contract, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, stability, standard of living, states, statistics, STEM, student lending, student loan bubble, students, study, survey, Susan Hockfield, technical, technology, the bell curve, ticket-takers, Tom Friedman, too few, too many, too many four year graduates, trade, trends, truth about, U.S., undercut, unemployable, unemployed, United States, university, unpopular view, untouchables, visas, vocational, wages, where are the jobs, workers, workforce, Workforce Alliance, worthwhile on November 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Curt Eysink is an unpopular man.
Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state’s higher education system: “We’re producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana.”
The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …
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