FRESH AIR Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot Flat and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to lead the charge. Friedman argues that the U.S. can help revive itself at home and abroad by finding solutions to global warming. Friedman is a foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. His other books include From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World is Flat. SOUND OPINIONS Show #145: 09.05.08 Based in Chicago, Sound Opinions is hosted by Jim DeRogatis and Greg […]
WORTH REPEATING: Georgia Ass Fault
THOM FRIEDMAN: On Wednesday, The New York Times on the Web flashed a headline that caught my eye: “U.S. to Unveil $1 Billion Aid Package to Repair Georgia.” Wow, I thought. That’s great: $1 billion to fix Georgia’s roads and schools. But as I read on, I quickly realized that I had the wrong Georgia. We’re going to spend $1 billion to fix the Georgia between Russia and Turkey, not the one between South Carolina and Florida. Sorry, but the thought of us spending $1 billion to repair a country whose president, though a democrat, recklessly provoked a war with […]
WE’RE ALL DEMOCRATS NOW: Federal Government Seizes Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, Shitcans CEOs
BLOOMBERG: The U.S. government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the biggest surge in mortgage defaults in at least three decades threatened to topple the companies making up almost half the U.S. home-loan market. “It is necessary to take action,” Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who engineered the takeover along with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart, said in Washington today. “Our economy and our markets will not recover until the bulk of this housing correction is behind us. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are critical to turning the corner.”The FHFA will take over Fannie and Freddie […]
McCain Teams Moves To Quash Palin Troopergate Investigation, Wants Dem Senator In Charge Removed
[Photo by TACOMA URBANIST] NEWSWEEK: Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin‘s firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called “October surprise” that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election. In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, John Coghill, the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska’s bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of the so-called “troopergate” investigation. Coghill […]
WORTH REPEATING: Sarah, The Founding Fathers Were ‘Community Organizers,’ Look It Up, Get A Clue
[via BRENDAN CALLING] “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.” — Sarah Palin, denigrating me and all of my neighbors. Here are some other community organizers, people that Sarah Palin feels don’t do anything for their communities. This useless fellow is Ben Franklin. A community organizer in Philadelphia, Franklin helped fight the American Revolution. He also established the first fire department, the first library?, and the fire insurance company. In 1747, he organized our first militia. In many ways, he conceived the American nation. As such, he was utterly […]
FOX NEWS: Swiftboating From The Broadcast Booth
[FOX Attacks Obama Like Kerry • FOX ATTACKS • Season 1 – Part 2] Tune in November 4th and see why 2008 won’t be like 1984 2004.
ELEPHANT GUN: John McCain’s House Of Pain
Our completely unfair and totally biased analysts tonight will be Amy Z. Quinn, aka Citizen Mom, recently converted Obama supporter/longtime Hillarycrat dead-ender, and Jonathan Valania, aka ME, who was right about Obama, and most other things, all along. We join the fourth night of the RNC in Minneapolis with Cindy McCain about to take the stage… 9:40 PM me: omg shoulda seen the Cindy McCain movie she beat back genocide 9:41 PM with just a single adoption and a few strategically placed cases of Anheuser Busch products Citizen: Hey, that beer money’s paying the bills, she can be the Queen of […]
HOT DOCUMENT: Letter From Alaska
[EDITOR’S NOTE: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED] TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city. She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle […]
HURRICANE SARAH: A Pitbull In Lipstick
Our completely unfair and totally biased analysts tonight will be Amy Z. Quinn, aka Citizen Mom, recently converted Obama supporter/longtime Hillarycrat dead-ender, and Jonathan Valania, aka ME, who was right about Obama, and most other things, all along. We join the third night of the RNC in Minneapolis with Rudy Guiliani about to take the stage… 9:53 PM me: are you watching CNN? Citizen: no, cspan PUT IT ON me: WTF no Citizen: i’m not riffing on the friggin’ cnn anchors and shit me: only got CNN put it on 9:54 PM Citizen: Eff these pundits no i want to hear the […]
RAW FOOTAGE: Beat The Press
[“Peace officers” at work: Police Intimidate Press at RNC & Brutalize Protesters] The violation of the First Amendment will not be televised, for obvious reasons.
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake in judging a famous somebody’s friends; wouldn’t that blunder then trigger a huge misreading of the chief person of interest? There you have the reasoning underlying Brenda Wineapple‘s fascinating new book, White Heat, that explores the relationship between Emily Dickinson and one of her closest confidants, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. For decades, Higginson has been derided by Dickinson scholars and fans as a kindly oaf; a Victorian man of minor letters damned […]
WORTH REPEATING: RNC Chaos Theory
JAY ROSEN/HUFFINGTON POST: John McCain’s convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists, and with bloggers (the “angry left,” Bush called them last night) along with confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party. It revives cultural memory: the resentment narrative after Chicago ’68 but with the angry left more distributed. It dispenses with issues and seeks a trial of personalities. It bets big time on backlash. At the center of the strategy is the flashpoint candidacy of Sarah Palin, a charismatic figure around whom the war […]
ELEPHANT GUN: Spitballing The RNC In IM
Our completely unfair and totally biased analysts tonight will be Amy Z. Quinn, aka Citizen Mom, recently converted Obama supporter/longtime Hillarycrat dead-ender, and Jonathan Valania, aka ME, who was right about Obama, and most other things, all along. We join the second night of the RNC in Minneapolis with First Lady Laura Bush introducing her husband… 9 minutes 9:49 PM Citizen: Laura Bush: Proof that with a pack of Marlboro Lights and a Xanax, a girl can do anything! 9:50 PM me: nice 9:51 PM nobody has ANYTHING good to say about No Child Left Behind except for the White House Spokesperson and […]