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The historic candidacy of Obama aside, the NY Times noted yesterday, in what it called “quiet political shifts,” that more and more black candidates are gaining ground in heavily white areas. The columnists cite a study by Cambridge author Zoltan Hajnal, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego. According to his figures, […]
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For the most part, they’re nonprofits. So can universities demonstrate their benefit to society? A New York Times article yesterday reported on a meeting between university presidents and two members of Congress. Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Peter Welch are both pushing the administrators to spend more of their endowment money to push down rising […]
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I had never heard about this incident before. The Beatles were booked for a 1965 concert in Israel, but organizers were denied permission to pay them (in foreign currency), canceling the show because “The Beatles have an insufficient artistic level and cannot add to the spiritual and cultural life of the youth in Israel.” The […]
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The Times Editorial Observer featured Make Magazine’s Mister Jalopy today, who issues a simple request: Please make it easier for us to tinker with your stuff. Yes, many of us marvel at technological wonders, but others want to engage it, play with it, and even make it better. ‘Mister Jalopy’s latest mission is taking the […]
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Few newspaper pieces are so (ready for this one?) metatextual as this one about photograph manipulation. Remember Iran’s swarms of test missiles? Remember how there were really only two? Does it matter anymore how many there were, since you saw an intimidating picture with a bunch of missiles? As it happens, seeing something is usually […]
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency will continue to require that ethanol be used in gas, as the NY Times reports: “…the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.” Look, I’m not a fan of higher food and grain prices. I love beer, and boy […]
Read MoreI have a few. I have had credit card companies fail at the most basic services. And I’m one of the lucky ones. From a very heavily-commented editorial in today’s New York Times: ‘When the Federal Reserve asked for comments on its proposed rules on abusive credit card practices, an astonishing 56,000 poured in. Most […]
Read MoreWhere to begin? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an expose on the hoops companies jump through to fund executive pensions. They do it quietly, tweak the pensions of lower-level employees (sometimes in dollars per month) and end up with a big tax shelter for thousands of dollars. Little-Known Move Uses Tax Break Meant For Rank […]
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