remembering katrina
Two years ago today and the days following my wife and I, as many did, watched with horror and rage as New Orleans flooded and thousands were left to try and survive. Several thousand residents took...
View Article“This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here happening here.”
Bruce, “Living in the Future,” on the TODAY show. Video from Taylor Marsh.
View Articlecalifornia fires as seen from camp pendleton
My brother-in-law, who is a Marine, and his wife are stationed at Camp Pendleton which is 38 miles north of San Diego. It also, according to the official website for the base, “covers over 125,000...
View Articlecountry music versus new york
Country Music Stars Challenge Al-Qaeda With Patriotic New Song ‘Bomb New York’
View Articlepat conroy on banning his books
Chris Anson of North Carolina State University forwarded a link on the WPA list to a pointed and hilarious letter from Pat Conroy to the editor of the Charleston (WV) Gazette in which he lambastes the...
View Articleblog move complete
This morning I took it upon myself to move my blog from the directory to the root and then make it appear as if the blog were still in the directory so that the URL would be the same. I … Continue...
View Articlebillings, montana, once again redefines community
Today on Morning Edition Jennifer Ludden told the story of Billings, Montana, resident Rob Hunter, who while “[d]riving to work one dark morning in February . . . caught an NPR story about an Iraqi...
View Articlereading palin/mccain, or “typewriters, baby, typewriters.”
In today’s New York Times, Dowd, Friedman, and Rich hold little back in their reading of the construction and marketing of, rhetoric coming from, and misreading by Sarah Palin and the (seemingly...
View Articlecurrent tv and twitter partner to tweet the debates
Al Gore’s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates. Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension “#current” which will be scraped for...
View Articlesobering email from ING
As someone who occassionally (read: almost never) has enough money to warrant an ING Savings account, I just received this email from Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of Savings at ING. Looks like 2009 isn’t going...
View Articlemapping the DOW’s 778 point decline and annie dillard
The New York Times once again comes through with another excellent mapping of a calamitous event: the largest one-day decline in market history (see also their very well done interactive video timeline...
View Articlecan you think of any?
Talking Points Memo has mashed together Katie Couric asking Joe Biden and Sarah Palin the same questions about Roe v. Wade and the supreme court. It is an insult to all Americans that this woman is on...
View Articledon’t vote! (unless. . . .)
via Americablog: Registration Information New Jersey Registration must be postmarked by: Tuesday, October 14 Get information about voting in your state: New Jersey election website New Jersey voter...
View Articletina fey continues her palin brilliance
On the VP Debate, with Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill. Fey totally nails it. 10:00+ minutes of pure genius: As of this post, 1,504,451 views. And for those of you who haven’t seen it, Fey’s parody of the...
View Articlethe great schlep
Via “Sarah Palin and the Jewish Vote in Florida” by Tristram Korten, I bring you The Great Schlep. Sarah Silverman is really knocking ‘em out of the park this election season:
View Articlecomposing john mccain
In “Make-Believe Maverick” Rolling Stone‘s Tim Dickinson (who according to his byline “joined the Republican Party in 2000 to vote for McCain in the California primary”) revisits John McCain’s...
View Articlepalin Africa reports result of elaborate internet hoax
On November 6, 2008, reports began circulating online and on TV that Sarah Palin did not know (or could not grasp the idea) that Africa was a continent and not a country. The story, embedded with other...
View Articlefront page coverage of Obama inauguration
The Guardian has 49 front pages, including many from the United States. A few favorites (note the Wordle at the bottom of DeMorgen): USA Today couldn’t move it’s logo? Terrible.
View Articleconcerns about newsweek’s oprah cover photo
The June 8, 2009, issue of the “new” Newsweek has a cover article called “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures, & You” by Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert. The print version of the US edition has this cover...
View Articleone article’s terrorist is another’s patriot
Last night I tweeted the following about the New York Times article, “Militia Charged With Plotting to Murder Officers“: The tweet resulted in a few responses (the second of which, from @kichigai,...
View Articlegulf oil spill response team needs your help
A week ago I signed up to volunteer to help with the massive recovery effort that will take place in the Gulf region what I imagine will be decades. I’m now receiving email updates on the progress. One...
View Articlebp oilspill cleanup volunteers needed for marsh restoration
Latest email from the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana: Volunteers Needed: Marsh Restoration in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge Register Now The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana,...
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