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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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"So predictable to see Joe the Plumber now attacking McCain for not defending Palin--even when he's defended her at every turn. Nativisim is about eating all the natives--even the nativist natives. The same lynch-mobs that showed up to McCain's rallies would have strung him up in a second. People often compared Obama's crowds to McCain's. The real difference is McCain's crowds, at the end, weren't there to support him--they were there because they believed Obama was a Muslim. Obama didn't draw 70,000 people who hated McCain, he drew 70,000 people who--mock them if you want--loved him. McCain's mob never loved him, they just hated a specter of the dude he was running against. Joe the Plumber has always been that rambling fool at the end of the bar. But McCain gave the fool a platform. How fitting that he's using it to now spit on McCain. "