What Will it Take? Why Undecided Voters Who Hate Bush Hesitate in Voting for Kerry Politics & Society What Will it Take? Why Undecided Voters Who Hate Bush Hesitate in Voting for Kerry Richard Silverstein October 31, 2004 This American Life broadcast an unintentionally hilarious (if it wasn’t so incredibly sad) segment, Swing Set, about... Read More Read more about What Will it Take? Why Undecided Voters Who Hate Bush Hesitate in Voting for Kerry
The Twins are Coming, the Twins are Coming! Children & Family The Twins are Coming, the Twins are Coming! Richard Silverstein October 30, 2004 My wife is nearly 34 weeks pregnant (unbelievably pregnant!) with twins conceived at the NYU fertility clinic... Read More Read more about The Twins are Coming, the Twins are Coming!
Slate.com Considers Elizabeth Edwards’ Infertility Children & Family Politics & Society Slate.com Considers Elizabeth Edwards’ Infertility Richard Silverstein October 29, 2004 My wife and I suffered from infertility for two years. We turned to egg donation and successfully... Read More Read more about Slate.com Considers Elizabeth Edwards’ Infertility
NY Times Shills for Video Game Companies, Promoting Games for Four-Year Olds Children & Family Military-Tech-Security NY Times Shills for Video Game Companies, Promoting Games for Four-Year Olds Richard Silverstein October 29, 2004 Just when I was thinking how long it’d been since a New York Times article really got... Read More Read more about NY Times Shills for Video Game Companies, Promoting Games for Four-Year Olds
Sam Mangwana’s Rumba Music Folk & World Music Sam Mangwana’s Rumba Music Richard Silverstein October 28, 2004 Sam Mangwana will certainly enter the pantheon of soukous’ greatest vocalists, which already honors Tabu Ley Rochereau... Read More Read more about Sam Mangwana’s <em>Rumba Music</em>
Case of the Disappearing Iraqi Weapons Cache Mideast Peace Politics & Society Case of the Disappearing Iraqi Weapons Cache Richard Silverstein October 28, 2004 The Bush Administration and the U.S. military have been as good in protecting the looted weapons cache... Read More Read more about Case of the Disappearing Iraqi Weapons Cache
Bloggers and Journalists: Politics Makes Uneasy Bedfellows Military-Tech-Security Politics & Society Bloggers and Journalists: Politics Makes Uneasy Bedfellows Richard Silverstein October 28, 2004 Jim Rutenberg has an interesting article in today’s New York Times (Web Offers Hefty Voice to Critics... Read More Read more about Bloggers and Journalists: Politics Makes Uneasy Bedfellows
Djivan Gasparyan: Master of the Armenian Duduk Folk & World Music Djivan Gasparyan: Master of the Armenian Duduk Richard Silverstein October 27, 2004 Gasparyan playing the ancient duduk (credit: Michael Brook Breakdown) In 1998, Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook collaborated... Read More Read more about Djivan Gasparyan: Master of the Armenian Duduk
New York Times Online: Ready for Digital Primetime? Military-Tech-Security New York Times Online: Ready for Digital Primetime? Richard Silverstein October 27, 2004 My answer is a decided, even shouted “NO!” The impetus for this post is Mark Glaser’s Open... Read More Read more about New York Times Online: Ready for Digital Primetime?
The Hubris of Colonel Dana Pittard: Why We’ll Lose in Iraq Mideast Peace Politics & Society The Hubris of Colonel Dana Pittard: Why We’ll Lose in Iraq Richard Silverstein October 26, 2004 As if we needed any more proof, an October 23rd AP article (U.S. makes inroads vs. Iraq... Read More Read more about The Hubris of Colonel Dana Pittard: Why We’ll Lose in Iraq
Ottopasuuna: Stellar Sound of Finnish Folk Folk & World Music Ottopasuuna: Stellar Sound of Finnish Folk Richard Silverstein October 26, 2004 I attended a party in Berkeley in the early 1990s and someone played Ottopasuuna’s eponymous (1991) record.... Read More Read more about Ottopasuuna: Stellar Sound of Finnish Folk
Songhai 2: Pozo del Deseo Folk & World Music Songhai 2: Pozo del Deseo Richard Silverstein October 23, 2004 Songhai was a world music fusion group active in the 1980s and 1990s consisting of Malian kora-player... Read More Read more about Songhai 2: Pozo del Deseo