Category: people

The Colbert Report: On his web site, [Republican Senator Richard Lugar] says “The unilateral embargo on Cuba has failed to achieve its stated purpose of b...

I became a fan of 30 Rock, which I now watch on Netflix Instant Play, by watching Hulu.com. The show continues to air on broadcast television. As my relationshi...

Glenn Greenwald: When I first heard Chuck Todd questioning Obama at Tuesday’s Press Conference about why Obama wasn’t demanding “sacrificeR...

Many if not most of Bernie Madoff’s victims were lured in by a web of other victims rather than by Madoff himself. They were set up for the con by relativ...

Meredith Whitney on Charlie Rose: The larger issue that is so important to focus on is something your friend Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote about, which is the whole ...

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell: The second dimension that is largely unreported is that several in the U.S. lea...

Frank Rich: Another highly regarded poll, the General Social Survey, had an even more startling finding in its preliminary 2008 data released this month: Twice ...

Gordy Thompson as quoted by Clay Shirky on viral distribution and its impact on newspapers, a business built on limited distribution channels: One of the people...

Perhaps four of the most important words in politics: “what if I was?”

This week’s On the Media has an excellent, extensive story on those most real Americans: the confidence men.

Crime is mostly about opportunity. Bankers have the most.

Whatever publicity Kutiman’s video song album receives – and I’m guessing quite a lot – is well deserved. The video sequencing is clever and lighthe...

I often think about art as a social cipher. But all powerful art is, first, intensely personal: As the two men got to know each other better in subsequent meeti...

Thanks to Israeli policy, the people of Gaza have run out of money, literally. Cash has been in short supply here since 2007. That’s when the Islamist gro...

Many American homes only have mirrors in the bathroom. I know because of the profile photos on MySpace.

other people have almost always written exactly what you want to say about a movie you’ve just seen. commenter “strawdawg” from nine days ago:...

All engineering is social engineering. Even hacks that are restricted to code are people interacting with each other across time and space through highly coded ...

Michael Idov via Jack Shedd A place that seats 25 will have to employ at least two people for every shift: someone to work the front and someone for the kitchen...