This month marks the 30th anniversary of the formation of one of the most influential, yet unexploited bands of the 1970s. In commemoration, you can now buy your ringtone versions of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart, a song about lead singer Ian Curtis’ chronic infidelity to his wife, and Transmission, the band’s other [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Calvin Trillin
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart
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240 pages
New York Times:
Students at Tehran University said Monday that only the most ardent supporters of the president were allowed to be present for the speech. The protesters gathered outside and scuffled several times with the Ahmadinejad supporters, as well as with riot police officers stationed outside the university.
Hmmm… that reminds me of how protestors of [...]
From Thom Hartmann’s column:
When Columbus first landed on Hispaniola in 1492, virtually the entire island was covered by lush forest. The Taino “Indians” who loved there had an apparently idyllic life prior to Columbus, from the reports left to us by literate members of Columbus’s crew such as Miguel Cuneo.
When Columbus and his crew arrived [...]
You really, really, really, really need to go read Mr. Fish right now.
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So this is how we are winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people:
The committee staff report said Blackwater guards had engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, and in the vast majority of cases the guards fired their weapons from moving vehicles without stopping to count the dead or assist the [...]
I just finished reading Frank Rich’s column about how Hillary Clinton is starting to look a lot like Al Gore. Not the new Al Gore that is confident in his views and public image – The old Al Gore. The guy that was so careful about what he said during the 2000 campaign that his [...]
