September 2009
14 posts
There are no new ideas, only actions to be taken.
“[Y]ou didn’t need a dodgy mortgage to be wiped out by the subprime crisis and...”
– “The Recession’s Racial Divide,” Barbara Ehrenreich & Dedrick Muhammad, The New York Times, September 13, 2009
Health reform that isn’t. No single payer system. No public option. No second term?
“In many ways, the lily-livered method that Obama chose to push health care into...”
– “Sick and Wrong: How Washington is Screwing up Health Care Reform - and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It,” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, September 3, 2009
A must read: “Trial by Fire,” by David Grann, published in this week’s New Yorker, about the persecution and state-sanctioned homocide of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas for the deaths of his three children in a fire at his home in 1991. Time, clearly, was not on his side, as new evidence that may have exonerated him was submitted too late for the appeals process to wind its way...
“Just come up with an idea and make it.”
– Spike Jonze, director, quoted in “Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to Screen,” Saki Knafo, New York Times Magazine, September 6, 2009
Humble beginnings.