New Orleans I retweeted something last week where someone had said, “Glenn Beck takes the left more seriously than anyone else,” or words to that affect, simply because it was true. For all of his buffoonery and conspiracy theories, Beck is on to something: he knows community organizing is serious business, and he knows that …
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Planned Parenthood Sting
Washington There is no such thing as total protection from the “politics of gotcha” in the modern environment of polarized politics. There is no question that Planned Parenthood has been in the bullseye for years from the zealots and anti-abortion activists. They had endured stings in the past, and knew in the wake of the …
Wiki-worlds Need More Women & Less Snarky-ness!
Toronto What is it about the Wiki-worlds that seems to encourage no boundaries, let it rip, snarky-ness? I don’t get it, but I’m pretty sure it needs to be fixed. Two cases in point: New York Times editor Bill Keller’s piece on Julian Assange and Wikileaks and the “calling all women” initiative at Wikipedia’s 10th …