Colin Snider, my old blogging partner from Alterdestiny, has started a new blog dedicated to Latin American issues. It's been up for a month or so now with many excellent posts. His frequent "Around Latin America" posts are excellent round-ups of the region, which we all...
According to Mike Elk's Twitter feed (@mikeelk), the Newspaper Guild and National Writers Union have called off the boycott of Huffington Post as Arianna Huffington has agreed to a statement.
Cara Pike at Climate Access has a good run-down of the reasons, outside of the broken legislative process which I think is a relatively small problem in dealing with climate.
I promised to say more about Corey Robin's assessment of Antonin Scalia in The Reactionary Mind, some of which is excerpted here. Before I get to that, I should say that it's an excellent book I strongly recommend. And one initial complaint notwithstanding, the Ayn Rand...
Reports everywhere are saying that Sirte has fallen, and that Gaddafi is dead, captured, or both. Gaddafi's presence in Sirte would certainly explain why resistance there has been so tough..
Lindsay Beyerstein points us to this piece in which Slate managing editor Rachael Larimore announces to the world that she's available to purchase your fradulent goods and services. The short.
Adam Weinstein has an interesting post/interview on a campaign for atheist chaplains in the military. While elements of the argument make sense, I do wonder if we have a definitional issue; is a chaplain without religious creed a chaplain, or rather simply a counselor or advisor?...
Earlier this week, Salman Rusdie told Haaretz: Everybody loves The Wire and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series. I love The Sopranos. Deadwood, which didn't.
Anderson Cooper.
To paraphrase Tony Kennedy, we sometimes must write blog posts we do not like. I normally use the title phrase pejoratively, and I'm not claiming to like or root for the Tea Partyin' bullpen micromanager. But other people who don't like him have taken the pundit's...
In theory, increased access to contraception could provide common ground between supporters and opponents of abortion rights. When it comes to actually existing American anti-choicers, however, the norm is opposition.
Sarah Jaffe on the atrocious Andrew Cuomo and his hard work to protect millionaires from taxes. I especially like when Cuomo compares his own fight to eliminate New York's millionaire.