Isak (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the current issue of The American Prospect, I have an article about how independent publishers and literary communities are borrowing strategies from the food movement in their search for support. It begins: "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." So said Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch priest born less than 20 years after the printing...
Merry Warriors (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... old testament prophets. The left feels many sympathetic resonances with the men in Gitmo. When 'Prospect'ers talk about 'Due Process', that is what is underlying their insistence on having 'legitimate trials'. 'What the trial will put on display is the United States' commitment to due process, and it may potentially prove America is unafraid to confront its own wrongdoing when it comes to...
Thurston County Blue - (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Wall Street has Met Its Match from THE AMERICAN PROSPECT, December 2009 Robert Kuttner has written a piece for The American Prospect praising Maria Cantwell's work on legislation that would effectively regulate Wall Street. She is fighting to secure fundamental reforms of the financial system, including regulation of credit-default swaps and derivatives. Kuttner is one...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Over at The American Prospect , Gabriel Arana discusses the risks and payoff inherent in David Boies and Ted Olson's gambit of taking the repeal of Prop 8 to federal court. The stakes are high. If Perry v. Schwarzenegger reaches the Supreme Court and Boies and Olson are successful, gays and lesbians nationwide would not only have the right to marry, they stand to gain many of the legal...
Learned on Women (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and why their editors think that is the case. His piece also includes reference to an earlier American Prospect article by Ann Friedman , wherein – to me – lie the key points. Those include: If Slate saw a demand for more content about women, why didn’t it start publishing more articles for and by women on its main site? The decision to devote micro-sites to groups that aren’t white...
Library Grape (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
For any of you non-lawyers who are interested in reading a great layman's article about the legal fight making its eventual way to the Supreme Court to recognize homosexuals as equal under the law , please check out this article by Gabriel Arana in the American Prospect . The fundamental principle at work in this is something I learned years ago in law school: The legal issues in [the...
Raise the Jolly Roger! (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... a 5.17 ERA in the majors since 2003. Here are his full stats . The Pirates also signed eight Latin-American prospects: SS Maximo “don’t call me Mariano” Rivera, SS Ramses Pena, OF Luis Urena, RHP’s Arquimedes Lorenzo, Christopher DeLeon, Luis Alfonzo Valdez, Anuedy Merejo, and LHP Darlin Alduey. ©2009 Raise the Jolly Roger . All Rights Reserved. .
The Skepticians (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On Wednesday, I appeared on MSNBC opposite Adam Serwer of The American Prospect to debate President Barack Obama’s failure to make good on a campaign pledge central to his shallow promise of “change:” the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the ‘necessary’ dismantling of the Bush-era detention policies. Despite Serwer’s protestations, there is very little...
Smart People I Know (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The American Prospect points out a stupid comment made with regards to the colour of the gown that Michelle Obama wore recently, namely, AP said: First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, flesh-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner held by her husband’s administration. Now if you look at what I [...]
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Which Party Is Best Prepared to Save Us From the Robot Apocalypse? Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But if science fiction has taught us anything, it’s that any sufficiently advanced technology will inevitably rise up to enslave us. So if you want to get ready...
this is sippey.typepad.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The American Prospect has a great appreciation of Jeanne-Claude. If Jeanne-Claude's portion of their work was in large part managing and bringing about the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in gold fabric despite then-Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's grave hesitations, so...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Joshua Gordon policy director at The Concord Coalition and Bob Kuttner co-founder of The American Prospect magazine discuss the ballooning national debt and its impact on stimulus efforts.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
From the top: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Walid bin Attash. From The American Prospect: There Will Be No KSM Show. The headline "9/11 defendants want platform for views" is screaming across the Internet this morning, as conservative tough guys shiver in their seats over all the mean things the 9/11 conspirators...
