Steve Thorngate
Ben Dueholm in our pages and others'
In a Century article
published this week, Benjamin Dueholm explains why politicians of
Michele Bachmann's ilk do well in the swing states of the upper Midwest.
He starts with the fact that Bachmann and Garrison Keillor are from the
same small Minnesota town.
Highlights from my Facebook wall's Occupy preoccupation
This video started making the rounds last week, presenting a clever idea for communicating with the big banks at their expense.
Links? Links.
Now that I'm posting on a solo blog again, I'm going to start including
the occasional link-roundup post separately from the "new today" digests
of Century content.
A good-natured protest drummer
The other day I left the office around lunchtime and walked over to the Occupy Chicago gathering outside the Board of Trade....
Jay Smooth outs the ringers
Jay Smooth’s video blog is always good; last week’s was especially good.
What's the gospel in seven words?
Got your own summation of the gospel in seven words or fewer? Add it as a comment to this post.
We are the Tumblrs
If you haven't been following the conversation around Occupy Wall
Street, it's perhaps best summarized in terms of the Tumblrs.
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A pro-choice GOP frontrunner?
I don't normally go for gotchas based on political candidates' rambling improvisations....
Oh, David Brooks
I'm a big fan of The Conversation, the New York Times online feature in which Gail Collins and David Brooks have a casual chat. I think the appeal is supposed to be that the two are reasonable, amicable and witty columnists who clearly like each other a lot. That's all nice, but what I enjoy is the palpable pleasure the hilarious Collins takes in needling the less intentionally hilarious Brooks.
Preferring the option not to have a preferential option
Last week, Faith in Public
Life asked Rick Santorum if he agrees with the Catholic teaching that public
policy should include a "preferential option for the poor." He appeared to be
unfamiliar with the concept.
Tell My Sister, by Kate & Anna McGarrigle
The McGarrigle sisters (Kate died of sarcoma last year) were more successful in their native Canada than in the States, but they were deeply admired by those who covered their songs: Emmylou Harris...