Newton Minow, fifty years later
Fifty years after “a vast wasteland,” Newton Minow proposes six goals for the next fifty years of communications technology.
We Are Wisconsin
A short film
Fake Koch
“Well, I’ll tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards, I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.”
Boycott Koch
The New York Times reports that Charles and David H., the brothers Koch, play a part in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s union-busting initiative.
Supporting NPR
A website worth visiting
AOL buys Huffington Post
With sarcastic pseudo-links.
Obama on education
“We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair; that success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline.”
Budgetary surrealism
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on the PBS NewsHour.
“Margaret Disowns Her Family”
Not your father’s Father Knows Best.
Six degrees of Richard Nixon
Can you work out your six (or fewer) degrees of separation from Richard Nixon? Yes, that Richard Nixon.
The word and the world
“Changing the word does little to change the categories that structure Huck Finn’s thinking, which are those of the world in which Huck has been raised.”
Orange Crate Art: Jared Lee Loughner, student
Articles in the New York Times and Washington Post give glimpses of Jared Lee Loughner’s life as a community-college student
“[T]he city’s one big night”
New Year's Eve in Times Square, 1910
Geraldine Doyle (1924-2010)
The face of “We Can Do It!”
Don’t ask, don’t tell Don’t stall
Moving toward the end of discrimination in the U.S. military
Richard Nixon on the Irish
Richard Nixon's Family of Man
A Depression psalm
The 1932nd Psalm
Steve Martin at the 92nd Street Y
High culture and its discontents
A thought for Black Friday
Be thankful, then buy more!
An Eleanor Roosevelt photograph
"Because she's Eleanor Roosevelt."
String bags FTW
Much better than recycled plastic
Mitch McConnell's to-do list
Is there any precedent in modern times?
David Foster Wallace
There is no such thing as not voting.
"THIS IS FUN"
1940s ad for mystery fun-producing food
Coming soon: fun
A 1940s ad for a food that means fun. Can you guess what it is?
Boycott Koch Industries
Like it says
Door supervision in the news
Door supervisors, or bouncers?
The It Gets Better Project
For LGBT youth
Don't ask, don't tell Don't discriminate
Overturning a discriminatory policy
Liberace Museum to close
In Las Vegas