The best take on yesterday’s election that I’ve found thus far came from the folks at Think Progress. Here’s what they had to say: Riding a wave of discontent, Republicans overtook the House of Representatives by great numbers, but foundered in the U.S. Senate, where the media spotlight on Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle […]
A few days ago, I mentioned that, as a part of the summer’s Shadow Art Fair, the folks from the Ann Arbor Film Festival would be sponsoring a competition of sorts. Here, on that competition, is Donald Harrison, the Director of the Executive Director of the Ann Arbor FIlm Festival. Donald and I don’t mention […]
Today’s quote of the day comes from across the pond. In an article in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, columnist Gary Younge had the following to say on the subject of torture: …The best intelligence the Bush administration ever had was a month before 9/11, when it received a memo entitled “Bin Laden determined to attack […]
Here’s a clip from today’s New York Times Magazine that I thought might be worth discussing: …When I was a child, in the increasingly olden days, kindergarten was a place to play. We danced the hokeypokey, swooned in suspense over Duck, Duck, Gray Duck (that’s what Minnesotans stubbornly call Duck, Duck, Goose) and napped on […]
I had great plans for tonight’s post. I was going to weave asparagus cultivation, the prosecution of Bush administration officials, the existence of bailout fraud and the curative properties of Vitamin D all together into one perfect, little Chinese puzzle box of a post. And I had it all worked out as to how I […]
