07Sep09

And the counter-argument, courtesy of Eliot Spitzer and Slate: http://ping.fm/mAdYa

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07Sep09

Uh, this is unsettling – S Court case on Weds re corporate limitations in campaign finance http://bit.ly/kyMlh

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Grid and a Gas Tax, Two Bits

26Nov08

Caitlin Howarth, Washington, DC
Nobody is going to be 100% happy with these suggestions.  But they should still be made.
Over a month ago, the G7 nations were making noises that they would be pulling back on carbon emission reduction goals.  President Elect Obama’s announcement of a comprehensive economic strategy that highlighted investment in alternative energy seemed [...]

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Putting It Out There

29Feb08

When did being smart and political stop being fun? In this election year, we should be putting ourselves out there as a source of substance in the progressive movement. We can be witty without being shallow, irreverent without being insulting. We’ve got some game. But too much of the time, we’re [...]

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The Idea Generation

15Oct07

When Thomas Friedman asks my generation for our idealism, activism, and outrage, I ask: What about our ideas?
If we gave Mr. Friedman what he wanted, we could produce a mass movement fueled by passion, believing in the good and marching ahead with vigor. But we would have no clue where we were going.
Outrage gets [...]

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Requiem

23Sep07

If Sundays are for the sacred, then surely spending an hour or so with opera and Mozart’s Requiem will count towards my score in heaven. Wandering through the house, I heard bits of it coming from the living room where my housemate watched the film Amadeus.
The film is about mediocrity, really – the mediocrity [...]

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