Ha ha that’s my favorite nickname for Sarah Palin and I thought it might get your attention. Anyway If you need a good listen at work this week I produce a radio show, RadioNation with Laura Flanders, and I think this is a strong week. We have two reporters who just got back from Alaska [...]
go phillies! shhh.
David Foster Wallace died yesterday; my friend Chris wrote a brief but lovely tribute. That’s just terrible.
Yesterday the Washington Post ran this really nice tribute to Mildred Loving, who along with her husband Richard in 1967 challenged for the right to marry interracially, and won it in a famous U.S. Supreme Court case in 1967 that overturned anti-interracial marriage laws across the country. She was pretty remarkable; she died on Friday [...]
[Editors Note: Ian wrote this on Thursday. Because I'm slow, and probably because I'm gay, I just got to posting it today, two days after the day he refers to. So let's think of it more as ... a reflection on International Workers Day, yes? ALSO Ian is fantastic and will be posting more offering [...]
Today I booked my colleague at The Nation, Betsy Reed, on midday MSNBC. Betsy has a fantastic and very important article out this week, “Race to the Bottom: How Hillary Clinton’s campaign played the race card—and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.” They promised us 15 minutes, which really means 7, which is still [...]
I didn’t know what to blog about today. Partly it’s because I read so much that made me angry; today I saw this bit on the Human Rights Campaign announcing their list of Senate endorsements for 2008, and I remembered: THIS is why single-issue politics, and why mainstream gay activism in general, is so totally [...]
If you often find yourself longing for the halcyon days when paintball was just paintball, you’re not alone. The sport has fallen prey to an international conspiracy of jihadists. Because they used it to train for terror attacks, you can’t use it to let off a little steam on a Saturday afternoon. Unless, [...]
As the Jewish-nationalist-spiritual-human rights-ecofriendly-GLBT friendly-generally progressive-whatever your cause is holiday of Passover begins tonight (for those who can afford it) I just want to take the time to say to our Jewish readers “Next Year in Japan”
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