Organizing Grievances

This has to be the most deliciously idiotic thing I have read quite some time. From what I can tell, Marie Jon' has the vaguest notion...

Turns out that today is a John Cougar Mellencamp day at the office. Would not have guessed that when I woke up.

It's Friday. I'm at work alone. I am going on vacation next week. I had two e-mails in my inbox this morning, both spam. I've go...

My hope: An LATimes analyst sees popular disenchantment with the free-market orthodoxy of the last 28 years. The WaPo reports on how the...

Four years ago I became a dad. Even better, I got to meet this cool little guy... and watch him grow into this awesome kid... Happy 4th Bir...

This is pretty much what I said . Only with writers. And video. And coherence.

The actions at Guantanamo are clearly war crimes, and it seems evident that Bush and his henchmen ordered it. Time to hold them to account, ...

Have you all read about this ? An advertising campaign launched on the London Underground during gay pride week earlier this month has cau...

Bush is not an economist , he's an optimist. Great. He thinks the economy is on a solid footing. It's only psychologically that peo...

This man took the cream and the clear , broke several home run records, and is arguably the most hated man in baseball. Or out of basebal...

I have been trying to work through my reaction to the New Yorker cover and Dave's question from the last post. I don't know whether...

This is the cover for this week's The New Yorker . I'm not going to link to all the hubbub, because either you live on the net or y...

Sorry this is a few days late, I was on vacation. Plus, I will admit that it's not even the best letter this week , but somebody put me...

Thank you, Dan Carey, wherever you are... On this day six years ago you changed my life forever when you walked up to me in a bar during the...

I know this is old and I am stealing from LGM and I am still sort of boycotting the Daily Show, but this was right on so many levels and it...

I'm by no means old. I can still party down with at least the top 25% of them. But in the graduate employee union world, I think it...

I am not sure this will go off as well as the Slint or Burma reunions, but who knows? All I know for sure is that I won't be able to aff...

A coupla weeks ago Doug Henwood hosted an awesome conversation with Corey Robin - a Brooklyn Prof who recently wrote an amazing review art...

I will ask in advance for your indulgence for what follows. Since I shuttered my own blog last week, I am now forced to vent about my work-r...