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Jonathan

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About Me

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My Interests

Politics, philosophy, linguistics, history, German, theology, sociology, hanging out, playing video games, camping, eating, chess, debate, music, reading, talking, listening, thinking, writing...

I'd like to meet:

Everyone.

Music:

Die Arzte, The Beatles, REM, Farin Urlaub, Queen, Wir Sind Helden, Rod Stewart, U2, Die Prinzen, Die Toten Hosen, Xavier Nadoo, John Lennon, Ben Folds, Paul McCartney, Dredg, The Cranberries, Cake, Tchaikovsky, Simon and Garfunkel, The Pixies, Marilyn Manson, The Phantom of the Opera, Guster, Weezer, Trevor Price, The Shins, Don Mclean, Rufus Wainwright, Greenday, Death Cab for Cutie, The Killers, Coldplay, Gershwin...

Movies:

Promises, Going Upriver, Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me, Fahrenheit 911, Brokeback Mountain, The Great Escape, Airplane, Good Bye Lenin, Paradise Now, This Divided State, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura Pet Detective (both of them), Dumb and Dumber, The Producers, Garden State, The Phantom of the Opera, Crash, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, the original Star Wars, Life Is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...

Television:

Seinfeld, C-SPAN, Family Guy, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Hardball, Stella, Andy Milonakis, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show...

Books:

Ender's Game series, God's Politics, One Nation Under Gods, Dude Where's My Country, Night, The People's History of the United States, Don't Think of an Elephant, Moral Politics, America the Book, Reason, The Bush Diplomacy, The Philosophy of Nietzsche, What We've Lost, The Rommel Papers, Big Bush Lies, Why God Won't Go Away, Naked Pictures of Famous People, The Exception to the Rulers, The Book on Bush, What's the Matter with Kansas, The End of Faith, Stupid White Men, The Importance of Being Earnest, Against All Enemies, Tour of Duty...

Heroes:

My friends and family, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mike Gravel, John Edwards, Mark Twain, Jon Stewart, and everyone who else who fights "the good fight"...

My Blog

Bipartisan laughs

When I started writing this column, I figured my last article would be my most polemical. To go out with a bang, you know? But now, with finals week fast approaching, I just don't have the time or en...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:50:00 PST

The obligatory gay rights blog

Well, here it is: the obligatory gay rights article. You knew it was coming sooner or later. This is, after all, a liberal opinion column. But in all seriousness, this is an important topic and one th...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

If you cant say something nice...

It is a tired but tried adage that "If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all." As an editorialist, let me tell you that it’s more fun to be critical than "nice." A ...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:03:00 PST

Utah: Is this the place?

Utah. "This is the place," I am told. The Promised Land. Utah boasts low crime rates, healthy residents, and the highest literacy and language fluency rates in the country. And yes, it is also true th...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:05:00 PST

Dilbert vs. the Bible and the Book of Mormon

Brigham Young University is notorious for blocking Youtube, Myspace, and MTV on its campus. Well, chalk up another casualty for censorship. Earlier this month, BYU’s student paper The Daily Uni...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:38:00 PST

My spiritual biography

*This is a work in progress. I’ll continue to add to it now and then. You may have read some of this from a previous note. Until just a few years ago, I considered myself a devout Mormon. I was ...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:55:00 PST

The 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War

*This gets published on Wednesday. It’s just a rough draft, so if you have any constructive criticisms, please share! I still have time to make edits. Today, March 19th, marks the fifth ann...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:07:00 PST

The North American Union

At this very moment, as you read my column, our government is quietly plotting to subvert American sovereignty. Without any public approval or congressional oversight, the Security and Prosperity Par...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:33:00 PST

The violence of hate

http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19318691& ;BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6   Tragic and infuriating.Let me be frank: to those who ratchet up the anti-gay rheto...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:29:00 PST

Its time to end the Cuba embargo

In 1959, Fidel Castro and his band of bearded revolutionaries overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista regime. But last Tuesday, after nearly 50 years of rule, Castro quietly relinquished his power. Many Cub...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:55:00 PST