I would love to have attended YearlyKos, but it was not to be (this year). I have read many accounts of this gathering of progressive bloggers, but the most affecting by far comes from Jeffrey Feldman at his blog, Frameshop. It’s a little long, but you should definitely read the passage under The Powerful Emotion of Trust.
June 14, 2006
June 8, 2006
DING DONG, AL-ZARQAWI IS DEAD
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been blown up. Great. The Administration apologists will be all over the talk shows insisting that this is a “turning point” in Iraq. (As The Washington Post pointed out, there have been at least nine other turning points in the last three years. If this is counted as the tenth turning point, one could argue that Iraq has turned so many times that it’s now heading back in the same direction from which it came).
The site of U.S. troops picking their way through a demolished shack looking for DNA samples isn’t exactly raising the flag at Iwo Jima, but it’ll do. I say this is an excellent opportunity for the White House to hang up a big “mission accomplished” sign and bring our troops home.
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NYTIMES: All The Nudes That Fit To Print
Peter Brooks, UVA Professor in the department of English, published an intriguing article on Slate.com that begins with explaining just how it was that the venerable New York Times published a full-color (and full frontal) penis in its Art Section. But that’s just to get your interest. The true text of the piece is a fascinating look at literature and art history. I love this stuff!
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June 7, 2006
WATCHING AMAZON
I first saw Bill Maher on HBO’s Not Necessarily the News in the mid-80s and, to be honest, didn’t care for him. (I am pleased now that he made an appearance in my friend Ethan Wiley‘s film, House II).
I warmed up to Bill with Politically Incorrect, but seldom watched the show because it had too many “celebrities” and not enough, you know, smart people. But Bill was always smart, and for the brief time that I had HBO again, I would regularly watch Real Time with Bill Maher. (My HBO is gone, but audio to the show is now available as an iTunes Podcast.)
Now Bill has done something really interesting: (more…)
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