Hands down. He wrote a very compelling defense of the Brooklyn College Political Science Department this week. More than any other writer, he is able to convince me that I'm actually wrong sometimes.

Just FYI, I deactivated my facebook account today in a fit of anger. I'm not sure how long it will last, but I definitely need a break from the Great Blue Satan.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2135132-1,00.html

There's plenty in here that made my hair stand on end...figuratively!

Since President Obama took office, the U.S. has executed more than 300
covert drone attacks in Pakistan, a country with which we're not at war.

In 2012 Obama described the government's drone campaign as "a targeted,
focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists trying
to go in and harm Americans" that hasn't caused "a huge number of
civilian casualties." Whether this is accurate may depend on what the
word huge means to you.

but they're not just for over there.

But the drone industry is ramping up for a big landgrab the moment the
regulatory environment starts to relax. At last year's Association for
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) trade show in Las Vegas,
more than 500 companies pitched drones for filming crowds and tornados
and surveying agricultural fields, power lines, coalfields, construction
sites, gas spills and archaeological digs.

naturally when they're flying over the U.S. regularly there will be accidents as they come crashing down. About 20% apparently just give up and fall out of the sky. I do like this warning:

The moral ambiguity of covert drone strikes will clarify itself very
quickly if another country claims the right under international law to
strike its enemies in the U.S. There may come a day when the U.S.
bitterly regrets the precedents it has set.

And I'll choose two for most interesting.  It's really an impossible choice.  But as for interest specifically, the Iranian film Modest Reception has left me thinking and thinking about the things they did.  Really stimulating and interesting, impossible pin down, hilarious and creepy, left me feeling vaguely that there's a problem with humans.  True art.  The opening scene is classic.  Seeing such things has a huge impact on unconscious attitudes about Iranians.

The other would be Charles Lloyd:  Arrows into Infinity.  What a beautiful person, quite stimulating.  In these music films, when the life story is juxtaposed with the music, the music is much more accessible--it makes sense with the life.  I probably would have missed the exquisite tenderness of Lloyd's playing.