“I think about my own kids”
President Obama comments on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Media Matters on Limbaugh
Advertisers continue to flee the Limbaugh show.
Netflix and Limbaugh
I called Netflix last night to share my thoughts on the company’s Limbaugh connection and spoke with a friendly person who offered to type, word for word, what I had to say.
Homer and Limbaugh and epithets
“In Odyssey 22, it is men who have the final word over women’s choices. Current events are all too reminiscent of that scenario.”
Social relations and technology
Dartmouth student Benjamin Schwartz on Facebook and Infinite Jest’s video telephony.
Politics as infotainment
“Stay tuned to find out why each man on this stage thinks his wife would be the best First Lady.”
Now more than ever
Amateur prophecy: it’ll be Gingrich, playing a cranky old white guy.
Logic and marriage
Rick Santorum’s recent performance in a sparring match with college students is one small moment in the evolving story of equal marriage rights. But it’s a moment that makes me mighty angry, for three reasons.
Moleskine stickers
Everyone gets a sticker.
Recently updated
Steven J. Baum’s foreclosure law firm shuts down.
Hooverville 2.0
The Grapes of Wrath and us.
Mitt Romney at Bain
In Elaine’s words, Romney sees the world through “Bain-colored glasses.”
November 11, 1921
Armistice Day, ninety years ago.
Ajax on my mind
Ajax and Joe Paterno.
Bravo, Ohio
“Republican-backed limits on collective bargaining for 360,000 public employees in Ohio were squashed by voters through a resounding defeat of Issue 2.”
“Incompatible with real democracy”
Paul Krugman: “extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy.”
Debit-card fee canceled
It’s difficult not to think that the Occupy movement has something to do with this decision
VDP on “Wall Street” and Wall Street
Van Dyke Parks: “The Creed Is Greed, in a nation dominated by stone-age fundamentalism.”
Heartlessness on parade
The New York law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. specializes in foreclosures. Joe Nocera of the New York Times has obtained photographs from the firm’s 2010 Halloween party. Disgraceful.
At Zuccotti Park (6)
Tarps.
At Zuccotti Park (5)
Photograph of a man with a flag.
At Zuccotti Park (4)
“We the 99% are too big to fail.”
At Zuccotti Park (3)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
At Zuccotti Park (2)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
At Zuccotti Park (1)
Our friends Jim and Luanne Koper went to Zuccotti Park on Saturday and are sharing their photographs of the day.
Words from MLK
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
NYC faux pas
“Never ever ever EVER refer to the city as ‘the Big Apple.’”
Lysistratic nonaction in the news
Women of two villages on the Philippine island of Mindanao have brought an end to armed conflict between their villages by refusing sex with their husbands
Music for hard times
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
Ben Folds on the tyranny of cool
“Everyone can’t be cool.”