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Monthly Archives: October 2011
More Handouts for the 1% (i.e. Salman Rushdie and Michael Moore)
Salman Rushdie, joined by Michael Moore and 45,000 others, have signed an online petition to ask Jamshed Bharacha, the president of the Cooper Union (a private school in New York City), to reverse his decision to raise the monthly rent … Continue reading
Silliness on Steve Jobs’ Legacy as a “Job Creator”
Tim Noah has a blog post attacking Eric Cantor, who can stick up for himself, but Noah also unfortunately slandered Steve Jobs, who cannot. I was writing an email to Noah to address this problem, but I figured that a … Continue reading
Puzzle about Journalism
From the New York Times article 5 days ago “Romney Beating Obama in a Fight for Wall St. Cash“: Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street’s … Continue reading
Last Night’s Debate
The main thing is that Rick Santorum showed himself to be a complete jerk: 1) He, like Perry, persistently interrupted Romney when it was Romney’s turn to talk. In both cases I appreciated Romney’s approach of being a stickler for … Continue reading
More Interviews from Occupy Wall Street (update below)
Update: In the above video, there is a portion of of one of my interviews which I edited in such a way that the conversation flow was interrupted, so I’ve posted an uninterrupted portion of that conversation below:
Interview with Jesse LaGreca, a Blogger for the DailyKos
Here’s a 2-part interview I did with Jesse LaGreca, who I had seen on the internet and TV discussing the movement with more famous journalists than myself. Jesse has ended both of our interviews by walking away (without much of a … Continue reading
Freed Prisoners Occupy Wall Street
This afternoon at Occupy Wall Street we ran into Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal, and Shane Bauer, who were taken prisoner in Iran in July 2011 while hiking. Sarah was released last year, and Josh and Shane were released a couple of weeks … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street Investigation
I am headed to Occupy Wall Street tomorrow, where I’ll interview some of the protesters. Any suggestions for good questions to ask (either about their political ideology or about the structure of their movement, for example)?