matt bai has become my favorite regular read at the new york times. his piece in today’s magazine is particularly insightful…
Where’s the real racial divide?
Also, look for weekly updates in Primary Arguments. in his last post, he offers a great explanation of how closely the clinton and obama campaigns have embodied the work of their primary strategists – mark penn and david axelrod, respectively.
i saw samantha power speak tonight at politics and prose about her new book – “Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World”. The book chronicles the amazing life and tragic death of one of the united nation’s most cherished activist in his service in Iraq.
great speech, had to leave during the q and a to run to rock and roll hotel.
today i saw senator obama receive the endorsement of three kennedys at american university.
first time i’ve really been to a big publicity washington event. couldn’t have been happier with the experience.
meet Jon Favreau – head speech writer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
…and he’s only 26.
i’m in the midst of finals, so i’m in the middle of lots and lots of read. elsewhere, here’s what i’m looking at:
- nice profile of the national from paste magazine. boxer is definitely one of the best albums of the year.
- nytimes offers a worthy analysis of mitt romney’s speech “faith in america”.
- a not-so-funny satire at radar online linking the tragic mall shootings to omaha-native conor oberst.
- speaking of not funny, mark penn does his best to show the clinton campaign was just kidding.
- nytimes gives love to radiohead’s new album and their payment model.
great article on barack obama from this month’s atlantic monthly
- If you have not seen Sigur Rós in concert , watching this is an imperative
- One of my professor freelances on the side, here’s his product: Congressionalbadboys.com
- From that site: “CREW’s annual most corrupt members of Congress” list
-Weslyan’s Rap Anthem: New Teen Force – “Party On Fountain”
- Congrats to David at Culture of Soccer for getting an article published by Christian Science Monitor
- Ronaldinho moving to Chelsea?
– [even better] Jose Mourinho to come to Tottenham?
- Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants
- Derek from Good Weather for Airstrikes is back to posting and the world is a much better place now because of it
- I saw Dr. Strangelove for the first time last night – Kubrick is brilliant
- Great post today from Zach Klein
- Hipster Olympics sent from Judd
- After spending a weekend back at Wake, it’s fair to say I can’t articulate how much I miss college
