Monthly Archives: March 2008
When Will We Stop Predicting?
Every presidential campaign of recent memory has produced its share of Dewey-Defeats-Truman press embarrassments, but Campaign ’08 has been particularly rich in bogus media narratives. Ever since the races began in earnest last year, the blown calls have just kept … Continue reading
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My Favorite Books This Week: The Election Edition
I haven’t done this feature in a while. Sorry! First, I have a cute site alert: The Book Pirate. He’s this cute blogger boy out in the Northwest who pokes his head in over here sometimes (I think I last … Continue reading
Limbaugh May Get Voters In Hot Water In Ohio
In Ohio, Republican listeners of Rush Limbaugh’s, who switched parties for one day in order to vote for Clinton, as a part of an initiative by Rush Limbaugh to defeat Barack Obama and the Democrats, could be charged with election … Continue reading
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We Are Now Broke Enough As A Country For Manufacturing Jobs To Return
I grew up in Maine, where I woke up this morning, and which is full of empty factories, dating back to when manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. Here in Biddeford, where my mother lives, … Continue reading
A Short Report From The Basement Of The Portland Public Library
I’m in Maine this weekend, visiting my mother. Today I drove into Portland. I spent an hour browsing at Casanova Comics, and then walked over to this library, where I used to spend a great deal of time as a … Continue reading
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Letters To No One In Particular, #1
At some point today I realized I kept checking the news blogs, as I often do, during the day, in a way that was like how I used to read three newspapers in the mornings, when I first lived in … Continue reading
Nude Live Politics, Kimchee
A few weeks ago, I was in New York. It was the end of a long Friday night. I’d gone to Judson Church for a sort of war protest cabaret show, organized and led by my friends Julian Fleisher and … Continue reading
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Paris Hilton Is Publishing Industry’s New BFF
My guerilla marketing plan for my next novel is going to be winning on Paris Hilton’s new reality TV show, My New BFF. [The Paparazzi Effect, Portfolio]
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Everything Is Now A Social Networking Site
Everything is becoming a social networking site. At Men’s Health’s magazine site this morning, for example, I wanted information on a workout and was asked to create a user profile. This is also known as “my demographic stats for your … Continue reading
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America Discovers Middle Class Gone, Held Everything Together
I’m not an economist, but even I know that you can’t keep wages down, force people to pay outlandish medical, gas and home loan prices and gouge their financial services with late fees and surprise interest rates and still have … Continue reading
