With millions sold, not sure how serious this problem is, but its good FOIA is around to allow the public to get at all types of information the government and companies would like to keep from us: We’ve all heard the stories about iPods sparking and catching on fire, but would you have guessed...
Read more →This incident with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reminds me of one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies: He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like oh, sure he went to Harvard. Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthrope III in Trading Places (1983) Carol Rose, Director...
Read more →An inspiring story from one of my favorite shows “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” Boasting five consecutive national championships, the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team might be the most dominant program in NCAA history. For those close to the team, it’s common knowledge that their magic run began only after a secret weapon was brought...
Read more →Next time a sitting governor is recalled and the ensuing state gubernatorial recall election turns into a parade of national media montages of Gary Coleman, Marey Carey and action movie one liners, maybe the citizens of that state should really think about what it means for their future and bother paying attention.
Read more →Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling. Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near Harvard Square at...
Read more →CNN’s Campbell Brown interviewed Chasidy Buckley and Jessica Shivers, two students featured in the HBO documentary “Prom Night In Mississippi” about Charleston High School’s first integrated prom in the spring of 2008. One of the points these young women make is they believed the prom was segregated because the “old money” folks who controlled...
Read more →To see some of Obama’s speeches in front of certain audiences in different regions is always interesting to me. Obama at one point says “It’s a lil’ warm in here”, sheds his jacket, and Corzine, not Reggie Love or another aide, promptly grabs it from him. Personally, I immediately...
Read more →Protesters gather on Enghelab St. in Tehran:
Read more →Read Revolutionary Road Blogs live blog of it here: If we do not have the votes of the people behind us, we will have nothing. The guardian council, the expediency council, EVERYONE gets their legitimacy from the vote of the people. CNN coverage here.
Read more →NPR has the list NPR.org, July 15, 2009 · To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty. That’s the viewpoint of two Washington-based groups — the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, and the National Coalition for the Homeless —...
Read more →Carlos Watson leads a discussion with Matt Taibbi, Dylan Ratigan and Jean Chatzky regarding his Rolling Stone article identifying Goldman Sachs as the center of the boom and bust bubble cycle in American financial markets. Dylan Ratigan calls it stealing and says to protect themselves, private US Investors need to divest themselves from the...
Read more →With rising unemployment in June, a Alt-A mortgages expected to add new fuel for to the fire things don’t look very good for the “green shoots” and I don’t even know if it looks good for the Obama administration’s positive outlook for recovery by next year. Amid rising unemployment and falling home prices, mortgage...
Read more →Steve McNair was the latest, and quite possible the last for a while, in a long line of black pro-football stars who played college ball at predominately black schools. He put up gaudy numbers at Alcorn State where he was nicknamed Air McNair and like so many black QBs before went to Alcorn State...
Read more →Well, not quite: Reid says he expects the tactic of gentle persuasion to work best, given the size of his Senate Democratic flock and the political divergences within it. “I don’t dictate how people vote,” he said in an interview this month. “If it’s an important vote, I try to tell them how important...
Read more →Guardian has an interactive page as a memorial/tracker of the victims of the Thugocracy in Iran: Dead and Detained Data Blog Another awful story from what I hope is a long awakening under an oppressive regime: (h/t The Daily Dish) He came to my shop around 10.30am. You could tell straight away that he...
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