Majikthise (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Craig Watkins, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. Scott Horton has well-deserved props for Craig Watkins, the Dallas County DA who is making a name for himself by helping to exonerate the wrongfully accused. Horton says the Obama administration should consider...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Secret Society, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. MANHATTAN, NY.Mark Small, Ben Kono, Rob Wilkerson, and John Ellis of Secret Society at the Bowery Poetry Club last night.
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Like Free Zone, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. MANHATTAN, NY.The bar at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Masons for Obama, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. BROOKLYN, NY.Now I can relax.
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Polling Place, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. BROOKLYN, NY.Voting went smoothly, but the turnout is very heavy. Between the time I snapped this picture and the time I got to the back of my precinct line, the gym filled up.I...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Crabcakes VECO, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. BROOKLYN, NY.A recipe I made to celebrate the conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of fraud today.VECO is the name of the oil services company that got caught bribing Stevens. The...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Matt Taibbi, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. MANHATTAN, NY.Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone introducing cartoonist David Rhees at a reading/cartoon showing at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan to promote Rhees's new compilation of "Get Your War On" cartoons.
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Barack Obama, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. Rick Warren's Saddleback Civil Forum on Global Health was an attempt to demonstrate the mega-church pastor's political muscle in the global AIDS community, both at home and abroad. Warren gave president Bush a...
Windypundit (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Many people find economics depressing because the economic model of human behavior assumes all people are rational maximizers of their own interests. Seen in the worst light, Homo Economicus is selfish and callous, grimly pursuing his own interests while happliy sacrificing the welfare of all others. I find people depressing because the economic model is so often right. Lindsay Beyerstein...
BAGnewsNotes (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Welcome to the Iraq training simulation at Fort Polk, where -- in an thoroughly obsessive, if totally misbegotten notion about authenticity -- it completely matters to American national security whether exactly six, rather than eight, as opposed to ten goats should be let loose to roam around.
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Hillary Clinton , originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. My latest Media Consortium health news roundup.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
By Lindsay Beyerstein, MediaWire blogger It's finally official: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be Barack Obama's Secretary of State. Some observers thought Clinton was a...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
(Photo: Lindsay Beyerstein) Your featured co-conspirator today is bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton. Jennifer has a diverse list of credits in both the classical and commercial realms on bass trombone and tuba. Her Broadway experience includes Curtains, Mary Poppins, Gypsy, Young...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
By Lindsay Beyerstein, MediaWire blogger It's official, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be Barack Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle will also serve...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Fireworks, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. The AP reports that Ted Stevens has lost to Mark Begich in Alaska.
