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Something else I apparently missed while I was away: some very big news for atheists. I believe this is the first elected member of the federal government to ever admit to a lack of belief in God, but I may be wrong about that. Either way, with atheism so misunderstood and hated in the United […]
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
During one of the Q&A sessions at the Al Neuharth Free Spirit scholarship thing, former anchorman Bob Schieffer did a musical number, and followed it up with a couple jokes about how embarrassing it would be when that inevitably got on YouTube.
Well, guess what? Someone from the conference uploaded it onto YouTube.
In case you can’t […]
Back from DC
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007I got back from DC this morning, and I would have blogged earlier except wake-up call came at 4:30 am and I spent most of the day once I got home sitting in front of my computer in a twitchy, exhausted, contented funk. Needless to say, the conference was amazing to the point of confusing […]
New York
Saturday, March 17th, 2007So what did I miss while I was gone? Besides Gonzales not resigning and Lieberman and Nelson engaging in the kind of infuriating behavior that’s practically expected of them now, that is.
A lot of stuff happened in NYC. A lot of good workshops, including a couple great ones but New York Times staff writers and […]
This is my last post before NYC, I swear
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007I wasn’t planning on any blogging today, but a couple of things caught my eye. The first one comes from the blog of Dave Sirota, an alumnus of the Ned Lamont campaign. he links to an interview with Al Sharpton in which Sharpton asks something similar to what I’ve been asking the Obama campaign (with […]
Monday, March 12th, 2007
About a week before my chance to meet Tim Russert, Colin McEnroe, undoubtedly one of the coolest journalists in CT, writes this absolutely brutal examination of Russert’s methods.
The whole article is worth reading, but here’s the best part:
In his own trial testimony, Russert explained his own unique approach to the concept of “off the record” […]
Away Message
Monday, March 12th, 2007Tomorrow afternoon I’m going with a large chunk of the staff of Blue Prints to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s annual convention for school newspapers. I’ve been there a couple of times previously and it’s always been a great time. Every year the editors from Blue Prints run their own workshop, and since this is […]
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Last night was a little bit nuts. I performed in the school’s talent show, first playing guitar with some friends of mine and covering some Rage Against the Machine songs, and then later on doing a solo, acoustic version of Your Little Hoodrat Friend. I thought it went pretty well, considering this was my first […]
Radioactive Scooter
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007The political fallout of the Scooter Libby conviction is already starting to get kind of interesting. The new media narrative is this:
A) Cheney has been permanently tainted by his connection to Libby, and a lot of people believe that Libby is just the fall guy. Which of course should be obvious, but it’s funny to […]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Speaking of irrelevant yet strangely satisfying milestones, I just hit page 200. Albeit that’s page 200 in single-spaced ragged right 8 1/2 by 11 pages, but still.
And speaking of another irrelevant yet strangely satisfying milestone, Scooter Libby is off to prison. Which doesn’t seem like cause for much celebration, because as has been oft pointed […]