Hold Fast

During the course of writing a number of times on Tim Russert’s offensive line of questioning of Barack Obama on Louis Farrakhan last night, I did a Google search of the term “jew-baiting.” The second hit on that search was a blog post by my friend Steve Gilliard, titled “Jew Baiting in America” from December, […]

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I’m traveling  and probably won’t be able to post again today. Enjoy some videos instead:
Who would Captain Kirk vote for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunlWolLDNI

The Receiving End of Sirens, “This Armistice”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbuoMP1VSJU

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Another day, another friend in the New York Times. Today the Times profiles Jessica Valenti, author and blogger at Feministing. The article is in the context of how feminists are dealing with presidential politics, but it’s a great tribute to the impact Jessica has had in contemporary feminism that her work and her efforts at […]

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I’ll be watching football most of the day, so prepare for light posting.
If you need something to occupy you for the rest of the day, I can take up 45 seconds of your time by suggesting you read these two posts by Atrios on the press coverage of election narratives: So Super and Beauty Contest. […]

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This New York Times article seems like yet another example of how American cell phone technology and culture is embarrassingly far behind Asia. Using cell phones to lower the barrier for writing novels is a very cool turn of cultural saturation of a democratized technology.
Also, in an article about a literary genre “mostly love stories […]

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Flipping through the categories for the Blogger’s Choice Awards, I had the following thought: “It’s like they put the whole world online or something.”
And then I realized that I’d had essentially the same thought in third grade when I discovered the Encyclopedia Brittanica in the school library. Only, you know, for books.

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