September 2011
7 posts
Beats from #occupywallstreet
“Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation – despite the...”
– David Graeber, “Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination”
Up with Obama
Amid the bickering over Obama’s real and perceived faults, Bill Keller in an op-ed published today in the Times helps define the stakes in the upcoming 2012 elections:
Against Obama we have a cast of Republicans who talk about the federal government with a contempt that must have Madison and Hamilton spinning in their coffins. The G.O.P. campaign sounds like a contest for the Barry...
Bike-Sharing in NYC
Story here. Now, if only we can get the NYPD to properly regulate the bike lanes. Presumably, bike shares are for people without bikes, or for people who ride bikes irregularly, and who wants to bike in the city when there’s no space to do so, or if the space allocated for them is taken up by parked cars, vans, and trucks—many of which are owned and operated by the NYPD itself? For all...