Didn’t I just do an NPR bit on this?
Obama graces the cover of Men’s Vogue magazine. Who covers it? Why the Washington Post of course!
Deja vu all over again.
Archive for August, 2006
Stop Putting Politics in the Style Section!
In my most recent NPR Commentary I rail against the habit of putting articles about black male politicians in the style section. One of the reasons we don’t really know what people like Barak Obama stand for is because pundits are so concerned with their charisma, or with their backstory. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Keeping Paris Hilton out of government office
The most recent edition of the American Political Science Review contained an article written by John P. McCormick (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) that presented three legitimate practices governments used in order to prevent the wealthy from exerting too much control over governments.
Towards a New Vision of Detroit
The hardest thing for me to do on any given day is clear the cobwebs out of my head so I can start writing. This is what I’m trying to do now…get the juices flowing. As a result this is going to ramble a bit.
How can we get kids to vote? The Pirates Party!
Browsing, I ran into this. My incoming freshmen were born in 1988. They started sixth grade around the time Napster took hold. Not only do they not recall the 8-track, or the album (the only reason they know vinyl at all is because of the house/electro/hip-hop DJ), they don’t recall a time where they literally HAD to purchase an album/movie/tv show they wanted. And I’m sure many of them know SOMEONE who’s got a case over their head because of downloads.
Overseas a group of what we call “policy entrepeneurs” has come up with a novel idea. They’ve started a political party that has no other purpose than to overturn archaic copyright laws…information wants to be free right? Kids may not give a damn about property taxes, about zoning laws. But I’m willing to bet they’ll turn out in droves to vote for the Pirate Party.
Something like that wouldn’t work at the national level here because the two parties have us in a vice grip. But it could work at a local level.