The Public Option and the Wheelbarrow Parable: Kip Sullivan’s Latest Must-Read
I know, I know. Hearing again about how tiny, ineffectual, and fatally vague all versions of a public option were in any draft bill that contained such an entity seems so…last September. But given that...
View ArticleTwo Disparate Examples of Genuine Journalism
I consider it unwise to log on to the blog through my employer’s servers, so I need to make this a quick morning drive-by. Recommendation 1: The Military Times has just come out with a multipart...
View ArticleStop the Presses! Bill Clinton Is Craven and George Bush Is Inarticulate!
People with far too many extant brain cells on their hands may recall this diary from November, where I noted that Bill Clinton and George Bush would be sharing the stage at this week’s Biotechnology...
View ArticleThe Other Gift to Biopharma in the Health Reform Bill, Besides the...
Maybe Jon Walker or some other wader-into-the-weeds of the health care bill wrote about this, although I didn’t pull up any hits in a Google search of FDL. In addition to the much reviled 12-year data...
View ArticleThe NYT on the Flotilla Massacre: When Good Editorials Start Off Really,...
Damn the Times for distracting me from my work-related all-nighter. But witness the lede to their editorial on the flotilla massacre: The supporters of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla had more than...
View ArticleConsortiumnews.com: Battling the Memory Hole Since 1995
You know you’ve attained middle age when your young-adult memories themselves reach the age of young adults. Someone born around the time I was marching against the Reagan administration’s proxy war...
View ArticleIn Case You Were Wondering Who Counts as an “Obama Critic”
From a front-page item in today’s New York Times, by John Broder: President Obama, facing voter anger over high gasoline prices and complaints from Republicans and business leaders that his policies...
View ArticleSaturday Sonorities: O Magnum Mysterium
I was going to expropriate the heading Saturday Chorale, but I see that markfromireland is hardly done with it himself. In any event, I’d like to link the the Lake to three extremely diverse choral...
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Merry Cuffmas!
” Following the long Thanksgiving weekend, people working in the lower Manhattan district called Hudson Square returned to find a new twist on traditional holiday street decorations. In lieu of lights,...
View ArticleIgor’s Opinion of Walt and Leopold (Sacre Bleu!)
May 29 is the actual centenary of the scandalous premiere of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, and before the day is out (if I can post this in time), I’d like to offer a modest coda to Edward...
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