Media Follies 2012: Got any suggestions?
For the 17th consecutive year, colleague Maria Tomchick and I are compiling our annual year-end list of Most Overhyped and Most Underreported Stories of the Year. We’ll start in this Saturday on KEXP...
View ArticleTaliban protests sequestration cuts
As Supreme Leader Mullah Omar explains here, it will devastate their budget – along with the Afghan “government” budget, the private wealth of senior members of the Karzai regime, and the Pentagon’s...
View ArticleSequestration in WA
Here is the White House summary of impact of sequestration on Washington state. It’s a staggeringly high price to pay for the latest tantrum by our modern-day Know Nothing Party.
View ArticlePeace Activist Trainee program for high school students
Once again this year, our good friends at Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation are offering a great four-week summer training program for budding high school activists, and the application...
View ArticleFor those you who think that vile racism in America…
…among elected officials (or anyone else) is strictly a problem of the Deep South, check out this. In a county that is exactly three percent African-American, don’t expect the inevitable recall...
View ArticleExplosions at Boston Marathon
This is ugly, and likely to get uglier. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 125 injured – many seriously – after two bombs went off in quick succession near the finish line to the Boston...
View ArticlePA judge strikes down fracking companies’ rights to privacy, corporate...
Last week we covered a California court case in which a judge halted a BLM land sale for fracking, a precedent-setting acknowledgement that fracking has unique and dangerous environmental impacts. This...
View ArticleYour “representatives” at work
Senate Republicans have successfully blocked expansion of background checks for gun purchasers – a measure that polls say 90 percent of Americans support. The ever-present gulf between what the US...
View ArticleTwo Book Reviews: “2312″ and “The Yellow Birds”
My first impression of “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson is that the author could use a good editor, or needs to take up short-form poetry to sharpen his descriptive skills. Much of the book is...
View ArticleKEXP program notes update
Apologies to folks for our having not been able to continue posting our program notes in recent weeks. Both Maria and I have run into time problems in the rest of our lives – specifically, that we...
View ArticleHack of the month!
This photo was taken on a highway in rural western Colorado this week (via KUSA-TV Denver). A welcome, 21st century update to the art of billboard defacement!
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