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Ben Smith, inimitable blogger and reporter for the Politico and co-author, with his wife, of my favorite neighborhood blog, writes that our congresswoman, Yvette Clarke was rated the worst member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
This may not be quite fair: She’s been ill for part of her first year, taking a six-week leave, and missed [...]

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This is probably the best argument for allowing Ahmadenijad to speak at Columbia today:

A rally where each speaker denounces Ahmadinejad’s reactionary policies and just a few call explicitly for military action will still be perceived, on campus and around the U.S., as pro-war. The right-wing media, from Fox News to the New York tabloids, [...]

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I’m working on a new approach for our techPresidentTV videos. Here’s my first stab:

I’m hoping to have more time to add an intro and outro and more content to future videos.

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I got inspired to write about the pros and cons of the freelance life. The kind folks at Web Worker Daily published my reflections.

Key question:

Does web work actually represent an evolution in the working conditions of the masses? Or are we fooling ourselves, blind to the reality that we can’t have it two ways [...]

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[Wow, I couldn't spell anything]
Last year I started go to a Turkish bath house in the East Village about once a month. It was so much fun: I would get totally overheated, jump in a freezing pool, rinse, and repeat. People sometimes make made jokes about sexual behavior there, but I never [...]

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This year has seen two controversies surrounding online political attacks that were designed to look voter-generated, but were actually produced by people indirectly connected to campaigns. In one, the producer and campaign fared no ill consequences and the work went viral. In the other, the producer and campaign are dealing with a hail of [...]

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Ron Paul and Mike Gravel are the dark horses of their respective parties. They raise a ruckus during debates and forums, they hold radical positions at odds with their parties’ leadership, and they poll very low (Paul polls between one and three percent in all national polls; Gravel polls even lower). Not surprisingly, [...]

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