David Patterson Is Going To Suspend His Campaign

Really at this point, the idea of New York Governor David Patterson suspending his campaign should be anything but news.  I mean, for the last few weeks the New York Times has been beating on him like he owed them money, with the news that he helped to suppress a sexual assault beef with one [...]

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Massachusetts Picks Brown

Over at CNN it has been projected that Republican Senator Scott Brown has won the election for the seat previously held by Ted Kennedy.  While there are some surefire implications of this change in seating (most notably for the President’s Health Care agenda), there are some things that you can be sure to expect to [...]

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Some Words On Haiti

I haven’t posted about the situation in Haiti yet.  This is mostly due to the fact that it’s so unbelievably staggering, that I just have had absolutely no idea what it is that I could say.  The death toll is astronomical, the country is in a state of near-chaos, and so far the global community [...]

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Jay Reatard: 1980-2010

Wow.  I don’t usually find myself too affected by celebrity deaths, but I have to admit that this is really bothering me.  The New York Times is reporting that garage rocker Jay Reatard was found dead in his home today at the age of 29.  I realize that I am just about the last person [...]

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Anybody Hiring in 2010?

If the American workforce wasn’t already beaten-down and gun-shy, it’s looking like things are going to be even tougher at the beginning of the new year.  John Nichols over at The Nation reports that close to 85,000 jobs were lost in December, ten times what most analysts had been predicting, and he’s concerned that the [...]

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The Christmas Day Terrorist Attempt: Who’s To Blame? What’s To Do?

OK, welcome to 2010 everybody!  Sorry about the infrequency of posts lately, but I took the holidays off to an extent.  However, my millions (read: dozens) of readers can expect some return to normalcy now that the year is properly under way. First on my plate of discussion for the new decade?  The aftermath of [...]

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Al Gore Is Fired Up

If you truck your merry self over to Slate than you will find their exclusive interview with former VP, one-time Nobel Prize winner, and general environmental do-gooder Al Gore.  Now, it’s a pretty long and comprehensive interview that covers a whole ton of relevant stuff regarding environmental topics, ranging from the meeting in Copenhagen to [...]

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Eggers Hits the Newsstands

Step right up Dave Eggers!  You’re next in the line of people attempting to revitalize the newspaper industry!  Okay, so maybe the line isn’t quite that long, and Eggers ambitions may not be quite that grandiose, but in a perfect world, revitalizing the industry may just be what he ends up helping to do.  As [...]

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A Tale of Two Surges

Amongst those who paid attention, there was a fair amount of debate about the surge in Iraq during the Bush presidency.  First there was the bickering between observers regarding whether or not the surge was working, which eventually gave way to differences of opinion as to whether or not it helped to justify the American [...]

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Health Care Is Still Inching Forward

As the New York Times reports, the Senate voted today to open the health care debate.  Despite being considerably less giddy than I was after the reform bill made it through the House, I nonetheless acknowledge that this was a significant and important step for the future of health care reform. The reason that this [...]

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