August 2008
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“Sarah Palin has been a governor of state inhabited by more moose than people for...”
– Robert Reich’s Blog: McCain, Palin, and the Important Difference Between Boldness and Riskiness
[via Fred Wilson]
“You know, the experience that she comes from is, what she has done in government...”
– - Cindy McCain
WHAT THE FUCK? Cindy, have you been popping pills again? (via antoinetta)
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– A John McCain joke from 1998
[via Salon Newsreal | A joke too bad to print?]
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Housing System Collapse: A Chance For Urban...
Abandoned Home - Twilight, originally uploaded by John Morton.
According to some recent reports, there are as many as 900,000 vacant homes in America, as the outcome of the housing bust: foreclosings, abandonment and reposessions.
The US federal government has allocated nearly $4B to cities and states, attempting to buy and maintain abandoned homes.
But what about the homes that have already...
Ms. John Soda, “Solid Ground Piano...
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Relocalizing Food: Food For Thought Panel Session...
I was happily surprised to finally connect with Layla Azimi who coordinates press and communication for Slow Food Nation, and she hooked me up with some tickets for the Food For Thought sessions yesterday.
Here’s my Twitter stream with some annotations:
Michael Pollan, Dan Barber, Gary Nabhan, Winona LaDuke - Relocalizing Food moderated by James Oseland, editor, Saveur
Oseland:...
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Mexico DF Slow Dinner with The American Grassfed...
At 5:30pm Thursday 28 August, I attended a so-called Slow Dinner organized as part of Slow Food Nation, at Mexico DF. It wasn’t particularly slow for me, because I mentioned to the organizers that I had a 7:00pm appointment (at Crushpad, see later post), and they brought the last few courses out all at once so I could finish in time.
Carrie Balkcom, the executive director of the American...
“We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have...”
– Barack Obama
[via Obama Takes the Fight to McCain - NYTimes.com]
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The Death Of The Insiders
Jonathan Kaplan, the former Washington reporter for the Portland [Maine] Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram laments his recent firing, and ponders the implications of the loss of “regional reporting”, by which he means a reporter in Washington reporting on the legislators from Maine:
[On Capitol Hill, Meeting Less of the Press by Jonathan Kaplan]
[…]
My former employer, the...
The Death Of The Insiders
Jonathan Kaplan, the former Washington reporter for the Portland [Maine] Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram laments his recent firing, and ponders the implications of the loss of “regional reporting”, by which he means a reporter in Washington reporting on the legislators from Maine:
[On Capitol Hill, Meeting Less of the Press by Jonathan Kaplan]
[…]
My former employer, the...
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Slow Food Nation Is Slow Email Nation
I requested a press pass in late July, but only today — through Twitter — I finally got connected to the ‘right person’ at Slow Food Nation. I sent email and got this auto response:
Slow Food Nation has begun and I will be off-site with limited access to email. If you need immediate assistance, please call my cell phone 925.785.0713. Otherwise, I will get back to you on...
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“Within the fast-forward world of campaign journalism, it’s not considered...”
– Media Matters - Hillary Clinton speaks at convention. The press concocts a story
I just love the bombastic and self-inflated press corps, echo chambering about Hilary’s dastardly plot to steal the podium from Obama. Idiots.
[pointer from @jayrosen_nyu]
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Tina Turner sounds so different working with...
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