Surfing news sites after an all-around irritating afternoon
Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual: An member of Israel's parliament answers questions such as, "Is everybody who criticizes Israel an anti-Semite?" and "Can a Jew be anti-Semitic?"
Annotated State of the Union Address: comments by James Fallows. I'm putting this here mainly so I remember to read it; right now it's making my head hurt.
The Girls Next Door: Sex trafficking (that'd be "sex slaves") in suburban New Jersey, and elsewhere, maybe up to 50,000 in the whole country. They're lured by the promise of legitmate job titles, like nanny or waitress. Ick. Can't finish this article, either.
Machine Politics: The voting reform we begged for after the 2000 election? Not this year. Go punch your chads and cross your fingers.
For These Girls, It's Word Power: Three teenagers from the more ghetto part of my old Boston 'hood, Dorchester, have founded an AM radio station run by 12 high school girls. Rock! Though I agree with the Ms. blog that instead of shunning hip-hop entirely, they need to get them some Queen Latifah and similar.
Finally, an alternate take on the "Dean scream." I love that Al Gore was supposed to be too boring to be electable, now Howard Dean's too excitable. They say we elected Bush because we wanted a just-folks man of the people, but now a candidate shows the common trait of enthusiasm -- acts like a common football coach, in fact -- and we call him unpresidential for it? Love or hate Howard Dean, you've got to admit the media has way too much influence on this election right now. They pounded him when he was the front-runner...now John Kerry's the frontrunner, and pundits wondered whether he could take the media heat. Yet, there's no heat! Hello? Anyone? Or did Kerry buy Time Warner when I wasn't looking?
Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual: An member of Israel's parliament answers questions such as, "Is everybody who criticizes Israel an anti-Semite?" and "Can a Jew be anti-Semitic?"
Annotated State of the Union Address: comments by James Fallows. I'm putting this here mainly so I remember to read it; right now it's making my head hurt.
The Girls Next Door: Sex trafficking (that'd be "sex slaves") in suburban New Jersey, and elsewhere, maybe up to 50,000 in the whole country. They're lured by the promise of legitmate job titles, like nanny or waitress. Ick. Can't finish this article, either.
Machine Politics: The voting reform we begged for after the 2000 election? Not this year. Go punch your chads and cross your fingers.
For These Girls, It's Word Power: Three teenagers from the more ghetto part of my old Boston 'hood, Dorchester, have founded an AM radio station run by 12 high school girls. Rock! Though I agree with the Ms. blog that instead of shunning hip-hop entirely, they need to get them some Queen Latifah and similar.
Finally, an alternate take on the "Dean scream." I love that Al Gore was supposed to be too boring to be electable, now Howard Dean's too excitable. They say we elected Bush because we wanted a just-folks man of the people, but now a candidate shows the common trait of enthusiasm -- acts like a common football coach, in fact -- and we call him unpresidential for it? Love or hate Howard Dean, you've got to admit the media has way too much influence on this election right now. They pounded him when he was the front-runner...now John Kerry's the frontrunner, and pundits wondered whether he could take the media heat. Yet, there's no heat! Hello? Anyone? Or did Kerry buy Time Warner when I wasn't looking?
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