Take 9/11. Is it a current event or a political discussion? Sort of both, but really (during that week) it was a lot of current events discussions with some politics in it. If you were discussing the reasons for it and (hypothetically) whether a myopic, pro-isreal foreign policy brought it on us it would go in politics. If you were saying "did you see that plane hit the building?", it would go in current events. Just my thought. Some discussions could be in either, others clearly belong in just one. Another example: Do you favor a war on Iraq? -> Current Events Does George Bush have the right to declare war on Iraq? -> Politics
Disagree. Both are political discussions. Examples of possible current events discussion: the sniper attacks in the DC area last year RI Great White fire Plane crashes And, of course, stuff freezing. EDIT: What if the topic is "A coked-up Jennifer Aniston goes on a shooting rampage"? Is that: a) TV b) Movies and Video c) Current Events
Good idea. Dante and I should moderate this forum too so we can move things back and forth as warranted.
I would like control of this forum. You and Dante have done a crap job on the "stuff freezing" front on the politics board.
I haven't seen a snowflake all winter. Hell, my fridge doesn't even make ice. We can't isolate ourselves from the rest of the cold, cold world, Gringo.
That has yet to be determined. If this forum becomes an arena for predictable former high school debaters to post links and cite "expert opinions" that support their view on a given topic, it will be no better a forum than Politics. In fact, it won't even be as good as Politics, because at least that forum serves as a daily reminder to me that more than a century after the abolition of slavery, my humanity is still questioned by some- an experience I don't have in my professional or personal life. Truth be told, I can't think of any current events that wouldn't fit into one of the other forums, especially since Free For All is a drop box for anything that didn't somewhere else.
A lot of this stuff could go in either forum. Plane crashes could also be in Travel, and surely the fire could go just as easily in music as it was a music concert that created the fire. "War: Do you favor it? Yes or No" doesn't have to be a political discussion, but maybe it was a bad example. Say it's 1994 and OJ is driving down the freeway. -> Current events. If you want to get into a discussion about racial injustice -> Politics. Unless she does it during a live episode of Friends, it's not TV. Unless she sells the movie from prison and you can rent the video at Blockbuster, it's not M and V. For my money, current events. Well, at least you don't have an adgenda
Re: Re: Current Events vs. Politics? Hi, I've got a massive chip on my shoulder, and I hate to back up my "facts".
Re: Re: Re: Current Events vs. Politics? It's a ************ing halo... Doesn't show up on your monitor, because I'm not trying to blind people, and because I haven't yet paid for an avatar. I keep putting it off. Facts? I post in Politics only once in a blue moon, generally not to supply stats (there's enough of that), but to read between the lines and offer judgement of motivation. When my posts are worded in such a way that they require support, I provide it.