creative non-fiction and the like
From The Columbia Journalism Review:
It has been ten days since the Iran election on Friday, June 12, and while the country may still be without a recognized leader, it is certainly not lacking the attention of the world media.
Originally published on my blog Devil’s Advocate at True/Slant
In all the hundreds of thousands of words I read this weekend in the media about the Iran elections, it wasn’t until Monday morning, when Christopher Hitchens at Slate weighed in that I finally saw something in Western media that wasn’t dipped in chartreuse.
Hitchens eviscerated the idea of “free and fair” [...]
From The Columbia Journalism Review:
Exactly one month ago, the White House released financial documents on President Obama’s economic advisor, Larry Summers. They revealed, among other things, that Summers had earned $5.2 million from his work at the hedge fund giant, D.E. Shaw, where he had worked just one day a week from 2006 to 2008.
The New [...]
From The Guardian: Comment is Free:
Republicans have tried to downplay the significance of Arlen Specter switching parties, but his decision took them by surprise.
As the news of Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic party swept through Washington on Tuesday, players in the Beltway and national media were stunned. It came without rumour or warning, and Specter’s switch [...]
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so there’s this barenaked ladies song (my ipod was on shuffle, don’t judge me) called ‘never is enough’ that has a particular stanza that caught my ear:
I can go to Europe, travel with my friends
I can blow a thousand deutsche marks
to get drunk in a pub with some Australians
Buy a giant backpack
sew a flag on [...]
Like many young girls, I spent a long-time convincing my mother to allow me to go on birth control, which largely involved lying to her about how I needed it for all the great things it does besides contraception (”But Sarah said it makes her periods lighter, mom! And it’s supposed to be great for [...]
My alma mater Talking Points Memo has been making a lot of the tiff between Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Alaskan Sen. Lisa Murkowski over volcano monitoring funding.
In case you missed the genesis of the debate, a few weeks ago when Jindal gave the horrific GOP rebuttal to Obama’s address to Congress, he threw [...]
