Race baiting
Lovely words from Hillary Clinton, via AMERICAblog. That sequence of "hard-working Americans, white Americans" is a gem. This from today's...
Posted Thursday May 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM | Full Post
The Clintons and Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.
I hadn't heard about this until it was mentioned by Michael Moore in his newsletter. I can't believe Hillary Clinton...
Posted Tuesday April 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM | Full Post
Brooklyn Museum to honor Bruce "eminent domain" Ratner
Develop Don't Destroy is encouraging people to show up at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, April 3rd, 6:30-8:30pm to...
Posted Wednesday April 2, 2008 at 3:28 PM | Full Post
Your moment of "oh my"
The latest press release from the Brooklyn Museum, titled "THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES THE INCLUSION OF AN EXCLUSIVE LOUIS VUITTON...
Posted Tuesday March 25, 2008 at 9:09 PM | Full Post
Inappropriate segues at the New York Times
I was reading this otherwise pretty good article on a young activist in today's City Section of the New York...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2008 at 6:08 PM | Full Post
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shuts down art show of Wafaa Bilal
I got an email about this over the weekend. Check out B. Blagojević's post on the ArtCal Zine and NEWSgrist...
Posted Monday March 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM | Full Post
On Gore / Lieberman
For all of the "things would have been perfect with Gore" people responding to news of Ralph Nader's announcement, I...
Posted Monday February 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM | Full Post
Asking for riots in Denver?
The Democratic Party's nominating convention in Denver could get interesting. From the Boston Globe: Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic...
Posted Friday February 15, 2008 at 1:19 PM | Full Post
John McCain: class act
Here is a nice quote from McCain in 1998 (via Attytood): Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father...
Posted Saturday February 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM | Full Post
Quote from Booman Tribune on health care plans
This is one reason why I'm not worrying too much about policy papers at this point: But most of the...
Posted Thursday February 7, 2008 at 12:32 PM | Full Post
Voting for Obama by default
This Tuesday when I vote in the Democratic primary, I'll be voting for Barack Obama since my only choice is...
Posted Sunday February 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM | Full Post
NY Times: blogs are for smart people, the paper is for the rest
When it comes to the New York Times, apparently the people writing for the main paper view themselves as filters...
Posted Tuesday January 29, 2008 at 11:32 PM | Full Post
Supporting the troops = encouraging anti-gay policies
The media, and our politicians, are too stupid to understand that educational institutions have very good reasons to deny access...
Posted Monday January 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM | Full Post
475 Kent yesterday
James and I were at 475 Kent yesterday with others at a protest / vigil as the tenants removed...
Posted Monday January 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM | Full Post
3 short videos from Parade Without a Permit 2
September 29, 2007 Click To Play Click To Play Click To Play Visit James for more information....
Posted Wednesday October 3, 2007 at 8:04 PM | Full Post
Parade without a permit Saturday night
I forgot to mention this when I posted yesterday about events going on this week. The parade assembles in Washington...
Posted Thursday September 27, 2007 at 1:44 PM | Full Post
Tear It Down
Speaking of Guantánamo, Amnesty International just launched a new website for its campaign to get the camp shut down, called...
Posted Friday August 17, 2007 at 4:53 PM | Full Post
The state of American electoral politics -- not so healthy
Here are the first paragraphs of an Alexander Cockburn column, titled How the Democrats Blew It in Only...
Posted Friday August 17, 2007 at 11:28 AM | Full Post
This does not seems like a recipe for a good police department
Smaller NYPD class raises fears, AM New York (emphasis mine below) Researchers and city officials Wednesday wondered if an increasingly...
Posted Thursday June 28, 2007 at 12:24 PM | Full Post
Operation Azra - online photography auction
Via Caryn Coleman I learned of this benefit. There is an exhibition tomorrow at the Bubble Lounge, and...
Posted Sunday June 24, 2007 at 4:06 PM | Full Post
While on the subject of parade permits
For those of you following along, I'm wondering if the powers that be are realizing that appearing to be hostile...
Posted Friday June 22, 2007 at 12:40 PM | Full Post
NYPD: in charge of your liberties
Am I the only one who finds it odd that the New York Police Department is in charge of deciding...
Posted Sunday June 17, 2007 at 11:03 AM | Full Post
Democrats vote to fund abstinence-only sex education
Via Digby. Abstinence-only sex education is basically another way to send tax dollars to right-wing fundamentalist organizations. Remind me again...
Posted Sunday June 10, 2007 at 11:11 PM | Full Post
Union uses YouTube against J.P. Morgan Chase
This is an interesting use of YouTube. Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ is trying to organize security workers...
Posted Monday April 30, 2007 at 4:58 PM | Full Post
For the NY Times, abortion bombers aren't news
I suspect if someone put a bomb outside a post office, government building, or religious institution, not only would the...
Posted Monday April 30, 2007 at 4:26 PM | Full Post
Anti-war demo inside Hart Senate Office Building
Thanks to Joy Garnett for alerting me to this action two days ago at the Hart Senate Office Building....
Posted Saturday April 28, 2007 at 3:02 PM | Full Post
Parade without a permit
Care about your first amendment rights? Today is a good day to show it at 4PM at City Hall. James...
Posted Thursday April 19, 2007 at 1:14 PM | Full Post
Bomb, bomb Iran?
What a scary country this is. This is what happened at a McCain campaign stop yesterday. Another man — wondering...
Posted Thursday April 19, 2007 at 12:17 PM | Full Post
The Civilians benefit - Resurrection Vaudeville
I see today that The Civilians are listed in Time Out New York as one of eight Off-Off Broadway...
Posted Wednesday April 4, 2007 at 4:48 PM | Full Post
Banana Republic
I'm a few days late on this. Is it just me, or does having President Bush make a major speech...
Posted Sunday April 1, 2007 at 2:34 PM | Full Post
ACT UP 20th Annivery demo tomorrow
The message is "Healthcare for all." See James and the Visual AIDS blog for more information....
Posted Wednesday March 28, 2007 at 10:45 PM | Full Post
iRack
From MADtv, which I didn't see last week as our Time Warner Cable Tivo-lite device died. Thanks to Noah...
Posted Saturday March 17, 2007 at 2:01 PM | Full Post
Hillary Clinton is a very bad person
An AP story from Saturday on Hillary Clinton's campaign trip to New Hampshire includes these gems (emphasis mine): Clinton acknowledged...
Posted Sunday February 11, 2007 at 1:16 PM | Full Post
Why James and I weren't jumping up and down after the last election
A lot of friends seemed surprised that we weren't more excited after the last election, when the Democrats took back...
Posted Tuesday February 6, 2007 at 12:06 AM | Full Post
I love this headline
Bush puts 'ic' back in 'Democrat Party' It's pretty funny that the party that has given us a suspension of...
Posted Sunday February 4, 2007 at 3:39 PM | Full Post
It would be cool to live in a secular country
From the BBC: Downing Street has said there will be no exemption from anti-discrimination laws for Catholic adoption agencies. But...
Posted Wednesday January 31, 2007 at 3:11 PM | Full Post
NYC art fairs seeking PR help from city
From today's newyorkbusiness.com: Art fairs seek more city marketing aid Some organizers of the upcoming art fairs running Feb. 22-26...
Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 5:00 PM | Full Post
Michael Rakowitz at Lombard-Freid Projects
Michael Rakowitz Headless Male Figure (Kh. IV 112) (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007 middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue...
Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
Official portraits
Chancellor Schröder's portrait by Jörg Immendorff Bill Clinton's portrait by Simmie Knox I think we can argue that the...
Posted Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:15 AM | Full Post
Pelosi bans smoking near House floor
This story reminds me of this video....
Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 12:20 PM | Full Post
Mixing art and politics
The website Daily Kos is one of the most influential political blogs / communities on the 'net. Their...
Posted Tuesday January 9, 2007 at 2:53 PM | Full Post
The GOP: What a freakin' criminal enterprise
Cheney reminds us why we need to impeach Bush before anyone starts indicting members of his administration. Cheney Hails Ford's...
Posted Saturday December 30, 2006 at 9:50 PM | Full Post
Wait, we'll come up with a reason soon
"concrete liberty hurdles" at Madison Square Garden August 31, 2004 photo by James Wagner From today's New York Times:...
Posted Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 1:08 PM | Full Post
James Hyde at Mehr (Midtown) Gallery
Dark (Davis), 2006 Acrylic and paper on digital print 24 × 27 inches I really love James Hyde's work....
Posted Thursday November 30, 2006 at 10:09 AM | Full Post
Why do people think McCain is reasonable?
I can't stand how many times I see him described as moderate or reasonable. He is very right-wing. The latest...
Posted Tuesday November 21, 2006 at 1:52 PM | Full Post
SNL actually does something funny
Posted Saturday November 18, 2006 at 1:15 AM | Full Post
Bill Maher outs Ken Mehlman on CNN, CNN edits it out
I saw the video first on FREEwilliamsburg where Bill Mahaer talks about closted GOPers and outs the party chair, Ken...
Posted Thursday November 9, 2006 at 3:32 PM | Full Post
Election night
Here are my two recommendations for returns watching tonight. I hope I won't have to make use of my book...
Posted Tuesday November 7, 2006 at 3:01 PM | Full Post
I'll take "disturbing segues" for $200, Alex
From a Reuters story, titled Foley singled out "hot" boys: report: Another former page said he felt he had to...
Posted Sunday October 22, 2006 at 5:59 PM | Full Post
The dangers of toothpaste
So I can't carry more than 3 ounces of toothpaste onto a commercial flight, but I can arrange for a...
Posted Thursday October 12, 2006 at 11:39 AM | Full Post
Before you buy another "hipster" shirt at Urban Outfitters
... go read today's Manhattan User's Guide. We never had Welch's Grape Juice in the house growing up because Robert...
Posted Wednesday October 4, 2006 at 11:18 AM | Full Post
Live blogging from Thailand
My friend Sean Bonner's Metroblogging unit in Bangkok is a good place to get some "person on the street"-style reporting...
Posted Tuesday September 19, 2006 at 2:31 PM | Full Post
Don't forget to vote!
If you're voting in the New York Democratic primary today, and still undecided on Hillary Clinton versus Jonathan Tasini, just...
Posted Tuesday September 12, 2006 at 10:46 AM | Full Post
Hillary Clinton loves cluster bombs
Have you noticed that Tasini button over on the right of this page? Here is a reminder of why it's...
Posted Friday September 8, 2006 at 2:26 PM | Full Post
Poetry
If a people have never spoken, the first words they utter are poetry. -- Ferdinando Camon in La Stampa, December...
Posted Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 6:52 PM | Full Post
NY1 says $500K to be a "legitimate candidate"
From Jonathan Tasini campain blog: To get on the ballot in New York, you need 15,000 signatures of registered Democrats....
Posted Wednesday August 2, 2006 at 2:46 PM | Full Post
Why I don't get involved in (electoral) politics any more
Two items from other blogs: James on all of the Democratic politicians in New York saying Israel can do whatever...
Posted Thursday July 20, 2006 at 11:28 AM | Full Post
Like a "Keystone Stasi"
I just read an op ed in Newsday by Ray Lemoine. Ray LeMoine is co-author, with Jeff Neumann and Donovan...
Posted Monday June 19, 2006 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
The Human Rights Campaign: dangerous to homos
I have never cared for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). On a superficial level, I really dislike their equal...
Posted Wednesday June 7, 2006 at 3:58 PM | Full Post
Update on slashed terror funding
I didn't get around to adding these two things yesterday to my previous post. First, the excellent New York Post...
Posted Friday June 2, 2006 at 10:39 AM | Full Post
Working with Republicans is suicidal for New York
I often see arguments that New York needs to work with the GOP, since they control all three branches of...
Posted Thursday June 1, 2006 at 12:21 PM | Full Post
Plan B re-opening covered by Crain's New York
The story is here....
Posted Monday May 22, 2006 at 2:19 PM | Full Post
Sounds like a culture war
"Sounds like a culture war" was James's reaction when I told him about the New York Daily News editorial on...
Posted Sunday May 21, 2006 at 9:25 PM | Full Post
Jean Rohe's graduation speech
Jean Rohe was the speaker at the New School graduation before John McCain. Many of the students were understandably...
Posted Saturday May 20, 2006 at 8:04 PM | Full Post
Village Independent Democrats endorse Hilary's primary rival
The Villager has an article on the endorsement of Jonathan Tasini, who is running against Hilary Clinton for the...
Posted Friday May 19, 2006 at 12:12 PM | Full Post
Revolocity: The Bicycle Ball
James Wagner, Critical Mass on 23rd Street Tomorrow Saturday night there is a party / fundraiser for cyclist legal...
Posted Thursday May 18, 2006 at 5:33 PM | Full Post
Anish Kapoor at Rockefeller Center
I learn from the New York Times that the Public Art Fund is sponsoring a new work by him at...
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006 at 3:04 PM | Full Post
Brooklyn College MFA to re-open on May 24th
The Brooklyn College show will have a re-opening on May 24th from 6-9PM at 70 Washington Street in DUMBO. James...
Posted Saturday May 13, 2006 at 1:53 PM | Full Post
New York Times working on a NY politics blog
Liza Sabater of CultureKitchen and Daily Gotham, was checking out her stats when she noticed a link from...
Posted Wednesday May 10, 2006 at 1:07 PM | Full Post
Photos of Minsk, Belarus demonstrations
Originally uploaded to Flickr by Siarhei Leuchanka I've been looking at photos tagged with "minsk" on Flickr to see...
Posted Sunday March 26, 2006 at 1:00 PM | Full Post
Remember kids, there are no good Republicans
Check out this story from Reuters, the bold is mine. Note that our "liberal media" feels the need to say...
Posted Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 1:37 PM | Full Post
They even have SS as the abbreviation
From Steve Gilliard, I see the Bush administration would like a "permanent uniformed police force" provision added to the...
Posted Tuesday January 24, 2006 at 8:05 PM | Full Post
Ridicule is all we have left
Voltaire (age 41) by Maurice Quentin de La Tour [source] Voltaire was 250 years ahead of me. I'm currently...
Posted Tuesday January 17, 2006 at 8:16 PM | Full Post
My favorite blog for commentary on the MTA strike
[Disclaimer: this post is a bit of a mess and I keep revising it to try to say what I...
Posted Thursday December 22, 2005 at 10:13 AM | Full Post
Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Go read Sir Pinter's speech while I'm working on my Miami posts....
Posted Thursday December 8, 2005 at 11:57 AM | Full Post
If you visit Miami, don't forget your ID
AP Story: Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places...
Posted Tuesday November 29, 2005 at 12:58 AM | Full Post
Hillary Rodham Clinton gets a primary challenge
Steve Greenfield This makes me very happy. I don't know why so many liberals, including homos, think she's great....
Posted Sunday November 27, 2005 at 1:25 PM | Full Post
A post on two political topics
I'm too discouraged to post on political topics too often, but here are two things I want you to see....
Posted Monday November 14, 2005 at 7:58 PM | Full Post
Security
In Germany, the entrance to the Reichstag (parliament/legislature) building is right there on a street, where taxis and bicycles ride...
Posted Thursday October 13, 2005 at 7:36 PM | Full Post
Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers and George Bush, still from an AP video For a couple of minutes, I had a post...
Posted Monday October 3, 2005 at 10:53 AM | Full Post
Phone Cams
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) uses a cell phone camera to record the Senate Judiciary Committee mark-up hearings to discuss...
Posted Friday September 23, 2005 at 11:58 PM | Full Post
In case you are mistakenly considering a vote for Bloomberg
... remind yourself that Cindy Sheehan managed to visit 21 states and over 50 cities and towns before being threatened...
Posted Thursday September 22, 2005 at 11:52 AM | Full Post
If you're going to DC on the 24th
If you're going to the peace rally in DC on the 24th, Florent has organized some buses....
Posted Sunday September 18, 2005 at 8:05 PM | Full Post
Jon Stewart chews up a guest
Don't miss this video of Jon Stewart with his guest Bernard Goldberg. This makes me look forward to right-wing guests...
Posted Wednesday July 20, 2005 at 7:07 PM | Full Post
On politics
I like what Tom Moody has been saying about the Rove/Plame affair. Meanwhile, the Iraqi prime minister we're propping up...
Posted Wednesday July 20, 2005 at 2:55 PM | Full Post
Compare and contrast
I love this paragraph from Walter Robinson's news roundup on artnet: New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who is...
Posted Monday July 11, 2005 at 3:05 PM | Full Post
Security priorities
From the invaluable Ray Sanchez at Newsday Since 9/11, the aviation industry has received $18.1 billion for security from the...
Posted Monday July 11, 2005 at 3:01 PM | Full Post
Kissinger is lobbying for the NYC Olympics
I found it sad, knowing that people like Muhammad Ali are there, to read that people went wild over Hillary...
Posted Tuesday July 5, 2005 at 8:13 PM | Full Post
What they're doing with our tax dollars
Closed token booth [source] As I'm sure my readers have noticed, I rarely post about politics anymore. I'm too...
Posted Thursday June 16, 2005 at 5:39 PM | Full Post
Columbia, graduate students organizing, and corporate academia
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a strike by the graduate students at Yale, who do much of...
Posted Friday May 6, 2005 at 12:27 PM | Full Post
Pink Houses
John Schenck and Robert Loyd Two of my mother's friends in Conway, John and Robert are featured in a...
Posted Monday May 2, 2005 at 9:43 PM | Full Post
Happy May Day
Rosa Luxemburg Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though...
Posted Sunday May 1, 2005 at 1:51 PM | Full Post
Grad students on strike at Yale
Photo by Matt Connors from from April 11th march Yale opposes the unionization of graduate students, who do a...
Posted Tuesday April 26, 2005 at 8:14 PM | Full Post
Microsoft and Ralph Reed
Not only are they backtracking on gay rights, Microsoft pays right-wing anti-gay Ralph Reed $20,000/month for "lobbying services." Again, go...
Posted Tuesday April 26, 2005 at 1:35 PM | Full Post
Microsoft caves on gay rights
After meeting with a single right-wing preacher, and being threatend with an "evangelical boycott", Microsoft has withdrawn its support...
Posted Thursday April 21, 2005 at 11:54 AM | Full Post
Reagan stamp?!
Today I received some mail from a Chelsea gallery with a Reagan stamp on it. Were they being ironic?...
Posted Friday April 15, 2005 at 6:51 PM | Full Post
When I read this letter in today's NY Times
To the Editor: Paul Krugman ("Kansas on My Mind," column, Feb. 25) mentions that at a town hall meeting, college...
Posted Monday February 28, 2005 at 9:03 PM | Full Post
DIVA TV Netcasts
Good stuff from the ACT UP web site, courtesy of James Wentzy: DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) netcasts! They...
Posted Monday February 28, 2005 at 8:54 PM | Full Post
Keeping out the poor Neo-Nazis
I was reading an article on a new luxury hotel to open March 1 in Berchtesgaden, site of Adolf Hitler's...
Posted Friday February 18, 2005 at 11:45 AM | Full Post
Scalia To Synagogue - Jews Are Safer With Christians In Charge
Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler From Common Dreams Antonin Scalia, the man most likely...
Posted Wednesday December 8, 2004 at 12:16 PM | Full Post
Senator Charles Schumer is an awful Senator
Charles Schumer, quoted in Newsday "We will have to review his record very carefully, but I can tell you already...
Posted Sunday November 21, 2004 at 6:41 PM | Full Post
Zombie voters for Bush
Sean Bonner points me to an article at America For Sale on the fact that Bush did way better than...
Posted Tuesday November 9, 2004 at 1:46 PM | Full Post
You have got to be kidding me
Ah, yes, the city hardest hit by 9/11 has posters in the subway asking us to send donations to Florida,...
Posted Friday November 5, 2004 at 9:51 PM | Full Post
So much for Bill Clinton as a good guy
Fuck him and Hilary. They don't think gay people should get married, but they're fine taking the advantages of marriage...
Posted Friday November 5, 2004 at 2:56 PM | Full Post
Other sites on the disaster
Culture Kitchen is always worth a read, and she has been doing a roundup of her favorite responses to the...
Posted Friday November 5, 2004 at 2:08 PM | Full Post
Oh, Canada
Looking at the map, it looks pretty easy for the good people to join Canada. I think we should secede,...
Posted Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 11:21 AM | Full Post
Election night events
I hope to be celebrating, not drowning my sorrows, on election night. I actually hope we know who the "winner"...
Posted Friday October 29, 2004 at 9:50 PM | Full Post
Is that George Clinton at the DanceMob?
From John Perry Barlow Following our forays during the Republican National Convention, many in our DanceMob declared that dancing...
Posted Saturday October 23, 2004 at 12:04 AM | Full Post
Jerry Nadler and the Arts
The Peter Hort campaign seems to be implying that the arts aren't important to Jerry Nadler, the current Congress member...
Posted Wednesday October 20, 2004 at 7:38 PM | Full Post
Two columns on Mary Cheney
I'm sick of reading people say it's offensive to mention that Mary Cheney is a lesbian. She is openly gay,...
Posted Tuesday October 19, 2004 at 9:21 PM | Full Post
Reality-based community
I'm glad to be part of the "reality-based community." After reading this article, you will be too. Which country are...
Posted Tuesday October 19, 2004 at 12:02 AM | Full Post
The Arts Community and Peter Hort
Since I last wrote about Peter Hort's campaign for Congress, I also learned about an "Arts Committee for Peter Hort...
Posted Monday October 18, 2004 at 12:14 AM | Full Post
Billionaires for Bush - Arkansas Chapter
My mother sent me an article from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (state paper, article not online) about Michael Moore's appearance...
Posted Tuesday October 12, 2004 at 2:23 PM | Full Post
Compare|Decide|Vote
I learned about Compare|Decide|Vote from Cory Arcangel (warning - web page with sound). They do some great side-by-side comparisons of...
Posted Tuesday October 12, 2004 at 1:50 PM | Full Post
Peter Hort: A "progressive" running on the Conservative Party line?
The words "progressive" and "convervative" (except for the use of "fiscally conservative") do not appear on Peter Hort's web site....
Posted Tuesday October 12, 2004 at 1:13 PM | Full Post
Dementia, after-effects of drug use, whatever
Via Daily Kos, a link to a video comparing Bush's speaking abilities ten years ago to those of today. Here...
Posted Monday October 11, 2004 at 3:11 PM | Full Post
Green Party Candidate David Cobb
... answers questions on Slashdot....
Posted Friday October 1, 2004 at 4:26 PM | Full Post
On Peter Hort, a clarification
I should clarify a few things regarding my post yesterday about Peter Hort's campain for Congress. I do not have...
Posted Tuesday September 28, 2004 at 11:49 AM | Full Post
Peter Hort, stealth Republican candidate for Congress
I have been meaning to write about this subject for several weeks, but today's Newsday article on Peter Hort reminded...
Posted Monday September 27, 2004 at 2:14 PM | Full Post
Great "essential" version of Bush's RNC speech
krupsjustsayin has a link to a great video of Bush's speech at the convention from Loop TV & Film. You...
Posted Saturday September 18, 2004 at 4:31 PM | Full Post
I thought they criticized the Dems for wanting a "parent state"
'It struck me as I was speaking to people in Bangor, Maine, that this president sees America as we think...
Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 1:01 PM | Full Post
Not Godwin's Law
Wietold Riedel is well aware of the history of the part of the world where he was born. Read tonight's...
Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:21 AM | Full Post
Phrase of the day
Scooter Goons. Also, can someone explain why I still have helicopters flying low over my apartment building at 23rd and...
Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:10 AM | Full Post
Antidote for the "they attacked a policeman on a scooter" people
The NY Daily News, not exactly a left-wing paper -- they talk about Bush's hard-knuckled approach after 9/11 rather than...
Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 11:04 PM | Full Post
A beautiful protest from Fernando Suarez del Solar
I can't find a better description of this, so I'm stretching fair use a bit to give you the whole...
Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 8:21 PM | Full Post
National Review: Genocide, it's a good thing
They are promoting a book (on Islam) by the spokesman for Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Yes, the one...
Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 7:20 PM | Full Post
ACT UP interrupts Andrew Card speech at convention
I bet the security people are embarrassed... AP story with video. Watch ACT UP's site for further updates. It should...
Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 2:38 PM | Full Post
Police presence even on lower 9th Avenue
Wow. We're not going to be able to afford anything but cops in NYC after this week. There are 3-6...
Posted Tuesday August 31, 2004 at 8:51 PM | Full Post
The geekiest protest sign ever
Awesome! Joy Garnett has more, including an explanation for those less geeky. -- UPDATED: Our friend Michelle was marching...
Posted Tuesday August 31, 2004 at 1:55 PM | Full Post
Ed Schrock resigns from Congress
Congressman Ed Schrock (R-VA) in front of a statue of Saddam Hussein at the Baghdad International Airport. Since this...
Posted Monday August 30, 2004 at 10:40 PM | Full Post
Arrested in Iraq, Arrested in NYC
From Newsday: Newsday photographer Moises Saman - who spent eight days in an Iraqi prison in 2003 - was taken...
Posted Monday August 30, 2004 at 12:47 PM | Full Post
Anti-GOP March photos
I only took one, as I was generally holding the sign which said on one side: and on the...
Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 8:16 PM | Full Post
Times Square - for RNC delegates only
I'm listening to anoise.org right now. The police have cleared the Times Square area of all pedestrians so that the...
Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 6:41 PM | Full Post
Gothamist Gazette convention blog
Gothamist Gazette has a group blog covering the invasion/convention, with the writers including our friend Jon Winkleman....
Posted Sunday August 29, 2004 at 10:47 AM | Full Post
Reproductive Rights March
Here are more photos of our march across the Brooklyn Bridge today. Here is the post James did, with...
Posted Saturday August 28, 2004 at 5:08 PM | Full Post
anoise.org
I'm following the progress of Critical Mass on anoise.org right now -- streaming ant-RNC news all weekend. Good background from...
Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 8:00 PM | Full Post
Get Your Pommes Frites On
Restaurant Florent is having some fun during the convention: You may have heard that the GOP is coming to...
Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 12:21 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On
New one! Click on the image for the rest. David Rees's new book, Get Your War On II, comes out...
Posted Friday August 27, 2004 at 11:15 AM | Full Post
New Route Map for August 29
There is no rally at the end, just... who knows with a crowd of that size?...
Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 5:06 PM | Full Post
Naked ACT UP protesters at MSG
From NY1 - there's a video too. The police waited 15 minutes before arresting them. Interesting. A dozen AIDS...
Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 2:38 PM | Full Post
Hastert says New York was too greedy after 9/11
House Speaker Dennis Hastert at Ground Zero in '01 with Rudy Giuliani and Gov. Pataki. AP Dennis Hastert, Speaker...
Posted Thursday August 26, 2004 at 12:19 PM | Full Post
Rooftop banners in Brooklyn
I love this story. I heard about it on the radio yesterday. Bright blue tarps, painted with glaring yellow letters,...
Posted Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 11:06 AM | Full Post
The First Amendment only applies to the NYPD and NYFD
The NYC police and firefighters don't have to worry about barricades, or someone telling them when and where they are...
Posted Monday August 23, 2004 at 8:55 PM | Full Post
New York City Welcomes Peaceful Political Activists
I'm not kidding. That's actually the headline on the article on the official NYC visitors site. This comes one...
Posted Tuesday August 17, 2004 at 6:20 PM | Full Post
Times are crazy!
Check out Matt Stoller's brief essay up right now in the right column of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee homepage....
Posted Friday July 16, 2004 at 8:40 PM | Full Post
Sex Tourism
Two quotes for your Friday afternoon reading: Today (I like the bit about the corrupt US-backed regime): TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters)...
Posted Friday July 16, 2004 at 3:12 PM | Full Post
Rick Santorum's priorities
Senator Rick Santorum on the anti-gay marriage amendment: "I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the...
Posted Wednesday July 14, 2004 at 6:34 PM | Full Post
The GOP thinks we should stay inside
Joy Garnett tells us of a GOP memo given to people at Penn South (the big complex a little north...
Posted Monday July 12, 2004 at 3:32 PM | Full Post
Nice way to celebrate the 4th
Apparently it has become illegal to wear an anti-Bush t-shirt in a public place if he is nearby. Story via...
Posted Monday July 5, 2004 at 1:15 PM | Full Post
Reagan is dead
Some excerpts from The Truth About Reagan And AIDS by Michael Bronski, November 2003: For the past two months I've...
Posted Saturday June 5, 2004 at 10:03 PM | Full Post
Wealth and race
I was reading this article in the NY Times on the lack of diversity in the boards of New York...
Posted Tuesday May 25, 2004 at 2:48 PM | Full Post
Does he actually want to win?
From CNN/AP: Kerry told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he would consider a judicial candidate who disagrees with his...
Posted Thursday May 20, 2004 at 4:26 PM | Full Post
Miss Underestimated
I didn't realized there was actually a book that uses that horrible neologism "misunderestimated" as a title. When I mentioned...
Posted Wednesday May 12, 2004 at 2:42 PM | Full Post
Oh no, can't have any "difficult" homos at the convention
Remember when I wrote about how Jay Blotcher can't be a stringer for the NY Times because he did media...
Posted Thursday April 22, 2004 at 4:31 PM | Full Post
Tax them out of existence
Let's have a holy war! If churches want to engage in politics, they need to be taxed just like everyone...
Posted Thursday April 22, 2004 at 12:56 PM | Full Post
Mao's official photographers
At ease: Hou Bo's portrait of Mao and family at the seaside When Mao Zedong proclaimed his new Socialist...
Posted Wednesday April 14, 2004 at 2:14 PM | Full Post
I hope the taxpayers didn't pay for any of this trip
From CNN/AP: HATTIESBURG, Mississippi (AP) -- Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their tape recordings of a speech by...
Posted Thursday April 8, 2004 at 2:38 PM | Full Post
RIP Keith Cylar
Keith Cylar, co-founder of Housing Works, has died. I have never known of an organization that started out as a...
Posted Wednesday April 7, 2004 at 5:08 PM | Full Post
Maybe I will re-subscribe
I stopped my subscription to The Economist last year because I felt they were being intellectually dishonest with their unquestioning...
Posted Saturday April 3, 2004 at 12:12 AM | Full Post
Only the GOP ones are important Catholic positions
In this helpful New York Times article, we learn what really matters to the Catholic Church. The senator is aligned...
Posted Friday April 2, 2004 at 11:29 AM | Full Post
Air America Radio
Air America Radio has launched. I'm listening to The O'Franken Factor....
Posted Wednesday March 31, 2004 at 12:03 PM | Full Post
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children going hungry?
I was reading an article about Jocelyn Elders, and she pointed out that about half of the children in America...
Posted Sunday March 14, 2004 at 8:30 PM | Full Post
Headed out to vote for Kucinich
I'm headed out to vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primary. Go read Matt Taibbi on the Congressman from Ohio...
Posted Tuesday March 2, 2004 at 2:12 PM | Full Post
More on Jay Blotcher and the NY Times
I've set up Jay's web site (jayblotcher.com) with Movable Type and started putting some more information up for him. For...
Posted Tuesday March 2, 2004 at 1:39 PM | Full Post
What country am I in?
This is considered an appropriate question from a New York Times reporter in a debate between the Democratic presidential candidates?...
Posted Monday March 1, 2004 at 2:07 PM | Full Post
What a crappy paper - The New York Times and ethics
Our friend Jay Blotcher, a freelance writer, has been sacked as a stringer for the New York Times because he...
Posted Saturday February 28, 2004 at 1:59 PM | Full Post
Rod Paige strikes again
The last time I posted about the Education Secretary, he was praising "Christian Values" in the schools. Now he says...
Posted Monday February 23, 2004 at 6:18 PM | Full Post
Obscenity
We all have our own ideas about what constitutes obscenity. Congress, FCC Focus on Pay Television Indecency Senate Commerce Committee...
Posted Wednesday February 11, 2004 at 2:14 PM | Full Post
Protecting us from dangerous musicians
Several Cuban musicians were nominated for Grammies (Grammys?) Most of them couldn't attend the ceremony because the USA denied them...
Posted Monday February 9, 2004 at 5:19 PM | Full Post
As if American Airlines isn't enough of a target already
Lovely: An American Airlines pilot flying passengers to New York asked Christians on board to identify themselves and suggested the...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 4:11 PM | Full Post
Wonkette
So that's where she went! Ana Marie Cox is now editing the latest web site in the "Gawker media empire":...
Posted Friday January 23, 2004 at 1:43 AM | Full Post
This should be bigger than Watergate
In the Boston Globe, via Atrios: Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for...
Posted Thursday January 22, 2004 at 2:50 PM | Full Post
Center for American Progress
If you only get one political/news email a day, make it the daily "Progress Report" from the Center for American...
Posted Thursday January 22, 2004 at 12:07 PM | Full Post
They don't even have to pretend
The Bush regime doesn't even have to pretend to care about appearances any more. Americans don't seem to care. From...
Posted Saturday January 17, 2004 at 2:55 PM | Full Post
Get Your War on Mars
The latest from David Rees is now up. Also, he'll be doing a short presentation tonight. It will mark...
Posted Thursday January 15, 2004 at 5:47 PM | Full Post
Dropping the Judeo part
Howard Fineman wants to remind readers that the "Judeo-Christian" phrase used by politicians isn't really very Judeo. This excerpt of...
Posted Thursday January 15, 2004 at 4:03 PM | Full Post
$1.5 billion for marriage?!
A few juxtapositions, for your reading pleasure: From the NY Times front page today (emphasis mine): Administration officials say they...
Posted Wednesday January 14, 2004 at 3:58 PM | Full Post
Brad DeLong reading Suskind's The Price of Loyalty
Brad DeLong, Ph .D. is reading Suskind's The Price of Loyalty so you don't have to. Go check out his...
Posted Wednesday January 14, 2004 at 3:46 PM | Full Post
What to get your favorite high school student
As Pandagon tells us, the National Review is selling a college guide written by morality maven Bill Bennett. Buy it...
Posted Tuesday January 13, 2004 at 4:22 PM | Full Post
The Blogging of the President: 2004
I meant to do this earlier, but I have added The Blogging of the President: 2004 to my blog links...
Posted Tuesday January 13, 2004 at 4:04 PM | Full Post
Warren Buffett
You know it's time to get nervous when Warren Buffett starts warning about our trade deficit and says Through the...
Posted Wednesday January 7, 2004 at 7:54 PM | Full Post
Patrick Stewart / Amnesty International
In my latest Amnesty International magazine, there is a brief article about the fact that Patrick Stewart funds scholarships for...
Posted Monday January 5, 2004 at 5:34 PM | Full Post
Some transit statistics
From Ray Sanchez, Newsday's MTA watchdog: In approving its 2004 budget, the MTA cut the subway and bus workforce by...
Posted Tuesday December 23, 2003 at 1:02 PM | Full Post
God works in mysterious ways
No More Mister Nice Blog has a nice post on the National Review's David Frum telling us that it’s becoming...
Posted Tuesday December 16, 2003 at 2:42 PM | Full Post
I've had it with this country
Statue of Liberty in Paris, 1886 The Statue of Liberty is still closed, for "security reasons", 27 months after...
Posted Friday December 12, 2003 at 11:36 PM | Full Post
A little Google Bombing
Bush is unelectable. __ What's Google Bombing?...
Posted Friday December 12, 2003 at 12:35 PM | Full Post
Yuck
I agree with what she said: To the Editor: You quote a United States lieutenant colonel in Iraq as saying,...
Posted Wednesday December 10, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Our tax dollars at work
From The Guardian (emphasis mine): George Bush was safely installed behind the high walls of Buckingham Palace last night at...
Posted Wednesday November 19, 2003 at 1:48 AM | Full Post
Barefoot and pregnant
A man at an Ann Coulter appearance in Boulder does this: "I stood up to the mic... kind of shaky,...
Posted Friday November 14, 2003 at 11:57 AM | Full Post
Fox News - Arm of the GOP
We all knew the 30-hour Senate debate was just show biz, but we hadn't realized quite how much. Via The...
Posted Thursday November 13, 2003 at 3:17 PM | Full Post
GOP Love Boat
How can the GOP have a convention in NYC without mixing with New Yorkers? By having many of the politicians...
Posted Tuesday November 11, 2003 at 12:18 PM | Full Post
One Party State
If I'm going to live in a third world banana republic, things should be cheaper, the cities should be more...
Posted Friday November 7, 2003 at 12:10 AM | Full Post
CBS pulls Reagan miniseries
OK. Who thinks we're going to have a real election in 2004 if major networks aren't allowed to do a...
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2003 at 5:27 PM | Full Post
Free speech?
Please see Mr. Ashcroft for permission to exercise your First Amendment rights. Anticipating this, groups are meeting every day to...
Posted Thursday October 30, 2003 at 2:03 PM | Full Post
Save the Children
The religious right, including the president and his brother in Florida, believe that gay adoptions are a threat to the...
Posted Tuesday October 28, 2003 at 1:05 PM | Full Post
Outrage Radio
Outrage Radio, described as "Liberal Talk Radio with Attitude", will debut next month. I'm not a talk radio person (I...
Posted Wednesday October 22, 2003 at 11:56 PM | Full Post
How dare they give it to a muslim woman?
That seems to be the reaction of the Catholics to the Nobel Peace Prize going to Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi...
Posted Friday October 10, 2003 at 2:24 PM | Full Post
Catholic Church: Condoms are useless against AIDS
There is some talk that the Pope might win the Nobel Peace Prize. Given the Church's continuous attacks on people...
Posted Thursday October 9, 2003 at 1:27 PM | Full Post
Happy Dance
No, my new G4 PowerBook hasn't arrived yet, but this is almost as good. Today's Daily News has this story:...
Posted Thursday October 2, 2003 at 6:13 PM | Full Post
No special prosecutor, yet
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity and has asked the...
Posted Tuesday September 30, 2003 at 5:17 PM | Full Post
U.S. Navy 'choked up' over German tribute
This story, from the September 19 newsletter of the German Embassy, made me cry when I read it. Navy officials...
Posted Thursday September 25, 2003 at 7:33 PM | Full Post
PFAW Auction
People For the American Way are having a fund-raising auction. There are some cool items, including: Kathleen Turner, sultry-voiced star...
Posted Thursday September 25, 2003 at 7:21 PM | Full Post
Barry's soundbites
... an occasional series... We're lucky the Bush regime doesn't just put poor people without health insurance into concentration camps....
Posted Friday September 5, 2003 at 3:22 PM | Full Post
To the Point
Congratulations to Matt from To The Point! He's quoted in the latest Washington Monthly, in an article on Wesley Clark....
Posted Saturday August 30, 2003 at 8:59 PM | Full Post
W.E.B. DuBois quote
I love this quote, lifted from the header of Idols of the Marketplace: If there is anybody in this land...
Posted Saturday August 30, 2003 at 8:46 PM | Full Post
A dictatorship would be easier
Buried in this article in the NY Times, Bush 'Compassion' Agenda: A Liability in '04?, is this nice little quote...
Posted Thursday August 28, 2003 at 2:01 PM | Full Post
Oh, now I feel better
I've had it with Bloomberg. He no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says President George...
Posted Monday August 25, 2003 at 12:56 AM | Full Post
White House misled NYC on air quality
I can't believe this isn't a bigger story in all of the news outlets! Thanks to Newsday, increasingly one of...
Posted Saturday August 23, 2003 at 11:50 PM | Full Post
The brilliance of the Alabama protesters
Kenneth Millican, top, of Rising Pond, Ga., and Jerry Layne of Chattanooga, Tenn., hold signs as they join dozens...
Posted Saturday August 23, 2003 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
The right - scared of debate
From Rush and Malloy of The Daily News: 'Debate' vs. Coulter-geist Tough-talking Ann Coulter wouldn't say a word last night....
Posted Thursday August 21, 2003 at 7:19 PM | Full Post
The Times on Bush: Snarky
I love the NY Times. In yesterday's paper, Elisabeth Bumiller's article on Bush and the blackout was headlined Bush Doesn't...
Posted Saturday August 16, 2003 at 8:52 PM | Full Post
Brilliant!
Quick! Go see the George W. Bush Air National Guard action figure on eBay before they take it down. Why...
Posted Tuesday August 12, 2003 at 11:00 PM | Full Post
Keep sending in those checks...
Your money at work, good Catholics: This is an April 2002 file photo showing the mansion-style residence formerly lived in...
Posted Saturday August 9, 2003 at 1:43 AM | Full Post
No comment
Q Thank you, sir. Since taking office you signed into law three major tax cuts -- two of which...
Posted Thursday August 7, 2003 at 1:19 AM | Full Post
Pruning the links list
I've deleted a few weblogs from my links page. I realized that some people I know actually link to A...
Posted Monday August 4, 2003 at 12:01 AM | Full Post
Counter Convention
The folks at complacent.org have set up a web site for people organizing against the evil GOP's use of NYC...
Posted Wednesday July 30, 2003 at 11:15 AM | Full Post
My alma mater can't afford a journalism school
The administration at Texas A&M (a university with 45,000 students) is proposing to close the School of Journalism because...
Posted Tuesday July 29, 2003 at 12:49 PM | Full Post
The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney
I first saw the Greg Palast article a few weeks, ago, but after seeing Michael Tomasky refer to Cynthia McKinney...
Posted Friday July 25, 2003 at 7:18 PM | Full Post
Guardian to publish American magazine
I was reminded that I hadn't posted anything about this when I saw the article in the NY Times today....
Posted Monday July 21, 2003 at 4:00 PM | Full Post
Rationing healthcare
One of the arguments people use to justify our "free market" medical system as opposed to some form of national...
Posted Friday July 11, 2003 at 12:18 PM | Full Post
Caeser doesn't want to see any of those black folk
... while he's making a speech about slavery. While "President" Bush was giving his speech about the evils of slavery...
Posted Wednesday July 9, 2003 at 7:26 PM | Full Post
New Yorkers Against the RNC
A friend just set up a Yahoo group meant to be "a catch-all discussion group for people interested in organizing...
Posted Monday June 23, 2003 at 3:23 PM | Full Post
Political grafitti
In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere... on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas...
Posted Saturday June 21, 2003 at 2:32 PM | Full Post
Hillary is a double agent
I think Hillary Clinton is a secret double agent for the Republicans. It's the only explanation that makes sense....
Posted Thursday June 5, 2003 at 12:04 AM | Full Post
Stop the FCC
Go check out Move On for actions to take to stop the FCC's destruction of media consolidation regulations: On June...
Posted Wednesday May 14, 2003 at 11:47 AM | Full Post
Bring back the commuter tax
I got into a discussion on Scott's site a while back about the fairness of the commuter tax, given the...
Posted Thursday May 8, 2003 at 5:09 PM | Full Post
Hillary's no friend of queers
I have never understood why so many homos seems to think Hillary Clinton is somehow on our side. She takes...
Posted Saturday May 3, 2003 at 8:44 PM | Full Post
What's the President's beliefs on homosexuality?
Here is an amazing exchange from yesterday's White House press briefing. Does anyone know who the reporter is that asked...
Posted Saturday April 26, 2003 at 1:19 AM | Full Post
Jews for Hitler
Gay Republicans are beneath contempt. They are the modern equivalent of pro-Nazi Jews. Rick Santorum, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, and...
Posted Tuesday April 22, 2003 at 12:24 AM | Full Post
Things that make me want to get the fuck out of Dodge
"All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the...
Posted Wednesday April 9, 2003 at 11:55 PM | Full Post
As soon as he gets pregnant
Check out today's Non Sequitur....
Posted Tuesday April 8, 2003 at 4:19 PM | Full Post
Under cover of war
While Americans were watching footage of missiles and files on CNN, the House passed (215-212) the Bush budget which includes...
Posted Friday March 21, 2003 at 12:45 PM | Full Post
One Nation over God
This is nice. We've started an unprovoked war that looks to much of the world like a crusade against Muslims....
Posted Friday March 21, 2003 at 12:36 PM | Full Post
This is sick
No wonder we have almost no allies left. So the 48 hours to leave thing was just a joke? From...
Posted Tuesday March 18, 2003 at 4:23 PM | Full Post
Regime change
Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military...
Posted Monday March 17, 2003 at 10:18 PM | Full Post
Global Vigil for Peace
I'll be at Union Square around 7pm for the Global Candlelight Vigil for Peace. Also, the March 22 protest march...
Posted Sunday March 16, 2003 at 5:53 PM | Full Post
Back to Iraq 2.0
After seeing an article in Wired, I added Back to Iraq 2.0 to my blog links. Sporting a cameraman's vest...
Posted Friday March 14, 2003 at 1:07 PM | Full Post
NY Press Daily Billboard
They certainly seem to be better with the new editors/owners. People such as David Ehrenstein and Atrios/Eschaton are contributing to...
Posted Thursday March 13, 2003 at 3:24 PM | Full Post
Mardi Gras/Carnival is a bit more political in Germany
A carnival float shows paper mache figure of German conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel emerging from the buttocks of...
Posted Thursday March 13, 2003 at 2:23 PM | Full Post
ACT UP / Roche
ACT UP has photos and a statement from its protest of Roche's new drug Fuzeon's cost: $25,000 per year. A...
Posted Thursday March 13, 2003 at 1:48 PM | Full Post
I love the French
From the French Embassy: The French Embassy in Washington said French fries actually come from Belgium. "We are at a...
Posted Wednesday March 12, 2003 at 11:39 AM | Full Post
Bush had decided by last summer
Buried in a NY Times article, I found this (Abdullah is King of Jordan): Jordanian officials say that Abdullah, told...
Posted Monday March 10, 2003 at 11:13 AM | Full Post
Drawn In
This is one of my favorite artists' anti-war things I've heard about -- Drawn In -- which happened on March...
Posted Sunday March 9, 2003 at 2:07 AM | Full Post
Worshipping Mark Morford
Go sign up to get his regular emails, so you don't miss things like this: I get this a lot:...
Posted Friday March 7, 2003 at 2:47 PM | Full Post
Britain's dirty secret in Iraq
From the Guardian: A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq's chemical warfare arsenal was...
Posted Thursday March 6, 2003 at 7:28 PM | Full Post
Nuns prepare for trial
Our SCLM (so-called liberal media) sucks. I just heard about this. February 22, 2003 Carol Gilbert, 55, Jackie Hudson, 68,...
Posted Thursday March 6, 2003 at 12:24 AM | Full Post
Refuting Kenneth Pollack
No War Blog has links to two good refutations of Kenneth Pollack's arguments for attacking Iraq....
Posted Monday March 3, 2003 at 1:11 PM | Full Post
Tom Friedman: Idiot, part II
I now feel completely justified in my opinion of Thomas Friedman. Go read Digby on Sunday's column: This wishful thinking...
Posted Monday March 3, 2003 at 12:43 AM | Full Post