It’s a strange and exciting thought that, hey, this year the New York primary elections might actually mean something. Though given the success of the candidates to whom my votes went in ’00 and ’04 (Bradley and Edwards, respectively), it might be more useful to cast a pre-emptive vote in the direction of someone I … Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
January 9, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
a brief and relatively inoffensive political thought
Categories: Politics
October 17, 2007, Author: , Leave a comment
talking liberal interventionist blues
Categories: Books, PoliticsIn hardcore, buckle-down fiction-writing times (such as the one I’m in now), I read a lot of nonfiction. Lately, much of the nonfiction I’ve been reading has dealt with current and recent events: I’m about two-thirds done with Samantha Power’s “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide; prior to that, I took … Continue reading
September 25, 2007, Author: , Leave a comment
sometimes, controversial visits by high-ranking Iranian politicians require complex sentiments to be displayed from window-hung banners. and sometimes not.
Categories: PoliticsVia the lens of Diana Wong comes this photograph, depicting a sign whose message roughly approximates my conflicted feelings on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University today.
Timothy Noah — maybe my favorite writer on the current political scene — is evaluating the field of ’08 Presidential candidates by their healthcare plans, beginning with the junior Senator from Illinois. It’s well worth reading, as Noah makes the case pretty convincingly that healthcare will be the most significant issue of said campaign.
May 13, 2007, Author: , Leave a comment
the army is sending a stealth bomber to blow up a manticore
Categories: Film, Politics…there’s something inherently weird — I don’t want to say offensive, because I find this more surreal than anything — about grafting a pretty standard “bug hunt” plotline onto a scenario taken from a military conflict that’s still ongoing. Either way, yes, the manticore is presented as a weapon of mass destruction. This is really, … Continue reading
No Tori Spelling. Still: “Half-lion, half-dragon: the deadliest weapon of the ancient world is reborn in modern Iraq. Now, one squad of U.S. soldiers must risk their lives to stop it before it wipes out all mankind.” Seriously. It has manticore-cam and a helpful moppet saying, “Come! Come with me!” I’m not entirely convinced that … Continue reading
Quick note: this Dahlia Lithwick essay on the current state of political discourse is, I think, pretty right-on.
Daphne Carr has a lengthy post up about a week spent in New Orleans, with an array of links accompanying it. It’s worth reading. Now, if possible.
Jeff Sharlet edits The Revealer, a website that I find pretty much essential; it covers religion in media, and its perspective is unlike anything else out there, I’d say. Sharlet now has a blog; one entry of said blog focuses on the issues of Daredevil written by Ann Nocenti. These floored me when I was … Continue reading