Cure-alls and Remedies
Look, if you’re not already subscribed to the Boston Globe’s Big Picture , then you’re crazy or you hate the awesome. But still, on the off chance you need more persuading, check out this photo spread of the 2009 Tough Guy Challenge in the UK or this one that aggregates some scenes from Indonesia over…
Over at GonePublic , my fellow Masonite Noelle McAfee has a post on the White House’s new Office of Citizen Participation, directed by ex-Google product manager Katie Jacobs Stanton . After a quick moment of congratulation, Dr. McAfee moves on to the critical reflections: Who is engaging whom? how? for what? At present, there’s little…
Laws are like sausages: you can’t enjoy them if you know how they’re made. This is doubly true for budgets and stimulus bills. That said, during the campaign American Public Media put out this nifty little Flash game that puts you in charge of the Federal budget, and in the spirit of self-governance (and wasting…
[caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”130″ caption=”Jason Furman, Economic Advisor”] [/caption] Following my last post, I’d like to address the provenance and fate of two websites, and what that means for contemporary politics: publicmarkup.org and whorunsgov.com . Public Markup is a site that lets readers read and comment on bills proposed and under consideration in Congrees….
I listened to Obama’s first presidential radio address yesterday. The presidential radio address hasn’t changed much since Roosevelt’s fireside chats, but as I sat listening to it, I felt like many of Roosevelt’s listeners must have done: though many things are out of my control, my role as a citizen has been exhausted in electing…
As a part of my continuing series in novel and cool things to be excited about, there’s the antiquarian and cool: Lars Brownworth ‘s podcast history of the Byzantine Empire through profiles of 12 Byzantine Rulers . It’s the perfect encore to Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome . (Also good: Isabelle Pafford’s History 106B course…
So, my last post was based on the premise that heroes in zombie movies make the bare act of survival extraordinary, displaying the virtue of subsistence. I associated the need for such heroes with recession. I had in mind the claim that economic growth is associated with ‘surging’ and economic recession with ‘dwelling,’ a distinction…
My friend Dr. J has been talking about anti-heroes for several years now . It was she who first introduced me to the beautiful cruelty of Dexter , a show whose third season I am eagerly anticipating on DVD (so no spoilers, please!) She recently directed my attention to Joshua Alston’s Too Much of a…
2008 wasn’t exactly the year of the blog: Twitter cut into my blogging a bit, as did life in general. As a result, I don’t have a long post to offer at the beginning of the year, as I would like to do. Instead, here are some things on my mind. Still working on personhood…
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