On Sunday my wife and I walked from where we live in the 11th arrondissement (district) of Paris to the 7th, passing much of historic Paris on the wa…
Read moreNow for this blog's first ever sports item: The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Los Angeles Angels 1-0 yesterday even though they had a no-hitter pi…
Read moreThis week's "Straight No Chaser" podcast from the always terrific Jeffrey Siegel features a preview of acts from this weekend's Sa…
Read moreThis week on Bloggingheads.tv, my friend and colleague Carl Zimmer, one of America's top science writers and author of the new book " Microc…
Read moreThis is from the Culture Project in New York City, I've been on their mailing list since I saw George Packer's play "Betrayed" this…
Read moreThere's been a lot in the news lately about Stonehenge, the iconic, 5000 year old prehistoric monument in southern England. The June issue of Nat…
Read moreAs media analysts have noted , the Iraq war has been falling off the front pages lately, no doubt a combination of apathy, "war fatigue" (a…
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH The war on teen terror The Bush administration's…
Read moreThe recent reports that Barack Obama is distancing himself from Muslims are detailed enough to be taken seriously, and to be the subject of serious …
Read moreApparently some citizens of San Francisco are putting a measure on the ballot that would change the name of their award-winning sewage treatment plan…
Read moreThe New York Times today has an article by Carlotta Gall basically saying that no one is in charge in Pakistan. It is somewhere behind the first pag…
Read moreBack in the 1970s, when Pacifica radio (where I got my start in journalism in 1978) aired Carlin's "Seven Filthy Words" routine, a lot …
Read moreToday's essential Sunday reading is a piece in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof , writing from Hebron, where 800 illegal Jewish settlers ar…
Read moreSeveral dozen Obama supporters turned out on Saturday to support their candidate on the Debilly footbridge, as announced on this blog earlier. In a …
Read moreIs it possible that the classic rightwing smear tactics just aren't gonna make it this election year? (psst, Barack Obama is--pass it on--Black!)…
Read moreThe organization Democrats Abroad France and other Paris Democrats are organizing a "bridge-in" for Barack Obama this Saturday, June 21, a…
Read moreA new paper in the journal Public Library of Science ONE offers a possible solution to the "Darwinian paradox" posed by genetic models of…
Read morePS--While we are in a musical mood, Ken Laster's latest jazz podcast, entitled "A Groove for Dad," is one of his best lately. Here'…
Read moreMy usual source of morning news, the New York Times , has an article today about an Army "overseer" who was fired after he questioned mor…
Read moreIf anyone is going to be in the Boston/Cambridge area this week, my Boston University colleague Gino Del Guercio is screening his new film at the Har…
Read moreThe day after Tim Russert died, I briefly posted a somewhat contrarian view to the avalanche of praise and testimonials to the late "Meet the Pr…
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