Interesting article in AlterNet, Ganging Up on Howard Dean by Ruth Conniff, that analyzes Tim Russert’s approach to portraying Dean in the media. Conniff concludes as follows: The Washington press corps can be like a gang of mean junior high school kids. But there is more than fickle dislike for a certain personality in the […]
In a comment to my “Steveland Morris” post on the 6th, Betsy Burke writes, On blindness, somebody might find Jacques Lusseyran’s autobiography interesting. Steve Talbott mentioned him in his newsletter- Lusseyran makes it sound as though sight were more of a handicap than a useful sense. During the war, Lusseyran was the teenage head of […]
Nostalgia attack tonight, and what’s crushing is that it shouldn’t be nostalgia: I can go for years without listening to the amazing Stevie Wonder, but then, suddenly, he’s back on the turntable — Lord, he’s good! I believe, I believe! Here’re some of the lyrics for Love’s in Need of Love Today, the opener on […]
So much for Canada’s liberalism. Two Ontario girls, both 15 years old, face jail time for …truancy from school. Un-be-f* * * ng-lievable. (My two kids haven’t gone to jail, er, I mean school, since June 2000, so naturally I’m biased.) If a 15-year-old is skipping school to the point that her authoritarian dimwit parents […]
Nifty grade 6 science project retooled by Stan Cox to teach economics 101: 95% of Americans get to live within a 43-mile stretch of each other in Kansas, while the top CEOs get to live in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wow. Really wow. If you’re a visual-spatial learner, you’ve got to read this article.
I just took my dog for a walk on yet another perfect Island day. As I said a couple of days ago in “Timewarp buzz,” the weather here is so even and temperate that it seems almost to make life cartoonish: thrills and chills are suspended, then banished to another place — it’s all just […]
It’s too bad I’m such a techno-peasant. My 9-year old daughter had to write out the HTML command that allows one to make links in blog entries (up to then I had been using the “shortcuts” that are built into this software, but it’s actually much faster to type the HTML command & copy & […]
Via Dawn’s site, a pointer to an article in The Nation by Naomi Klein, Canada: Hippie Nation? Klein writes about Canada’s new cutting-edge laws on gay marriage and legalized drugs, and that this is suddenly making Canada — long the boring white-bread north-of-the-border silent partner of the US — world-famous, particularly since our liberalism stands […]
I don’t know how Teresa Nielsen Hayden finds these nuggets, but Making Light has done it again with a prize pointer to what she calls “particles”: this one is entitled A Swedish practical joke, and it confirms my suspicion (in yesterday’s Timewarp buzz) that too much daylight will finally fry your brain — and put […]
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