The New York Times today has an article by Carlotta Gall basically saying that no one is in charge in Pakistan. It is somewhere behind the first pag…
Read moreBack in the 1970s, when Pacifica radio (where I got my start in journalism in 1978) aired Carlin's "Seven Filthy Words" routine, a lot …
Read moreToday's essential Sunday reading is a piece in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof , writing from Hebron, where 800 illegal Jewish settlers ar…
Read moreSeveral dozen Obama supporters turned out on Saturday to support their candidate on the Debilly footbridge, as announced on this blog earlier. In a …
Read moreIs it possible that the classic rightwing smear tactics just aren't gonna make it this election year? (psst, Barack Obama is--pass it on--Black!)…
Read moreThe organization Democrats Abroad France and other Paris Democrats are organizing a "bridge-in" for Barack Obama this Saturday, June 21, a…
Read moreA new paper in the journal Public Library of Science ONE offers a possible solution to the "Darwinian paradox" posed by genetic models of…
Read morePS--While we are in a musical mood, Ken Laster's latest jazz podcast, entitled "A Groove for Dad," is one of his best lately. Here'…
Read moreMy usual source of morning news, the New York Times , has an article today about an Army "overseer" who was fired after he questioned mor…
Read moreIf anyone is going to be in the Boston/Cambridge area this week, my Boston University colleague Gino Del Guercio is screening his new film at the Har…
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