The news this week of Obama’s shameful alliance with anti-gay bigot Donnie McClurkin is incredibly disappointing. I’ve been an outspoken Obama supporter so far, but unless he fixes this, I may lose interest with a quickness. I said all I have to say about McClurkin back in 2004, although, at the time, he was rightfully [...]
From the New York Times.
Nicole Kelsay is the last to be sentenced for her role in the murder of Scotty Joe Weaver. Like Robert Porter, Kelsay will be eligible for parole in just a few years. While this ordeal will never be over for Scotty Joe’s mother Martha and his brother Lum, after three long years, now that all [...]
Protecting New Orleans The New York Times looks at the efforts to protect New Orleans from the next big storm.
New Orleans was swamped by Hurricane Katrina; now it is awash in data, studied obsessively in homes all over town. And the simple message conveyed by that data is that while parts of the city are [...]
It’s really nice that with all the uncertainty in the world today, the New York Times can still hit us with such an awesomely funny headline.
Exploiting the Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend I was lucky enough to see some of the Gee’s Bend quilts back in 2003, before they became the phenomenon they did. I was moved by the story of how the quiltmakers came to be recognized as great contemporary artists, and hoped that that appreciation would help improve the [...]
With apologies to John Gruber, who does this sort of thing much better than me, but isn’t likely to take on this particular topic.
