Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2727
July 21, 2010
The Daily Wrap
Dish coverage and commentary of the Breitbart-Sherrod controversy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and a reader dissent here. (Meanwhile, POTUS signed a major bill.) On the Journo-scandal, Andrew challenged Chait, doubled down, and Ezra defended his defunct forum. Andrew also kept on the Hollywood scandal (multiple dissents here), defended himself from Tablet's charges, and meep-meep'd over the GOP. Scott Horton dug into the WaPo series and Ray Sanchez reported more on t...
Chait On The Left "Replicating The Form And Structure Of The Conservative Movement" Ctd
Jonathan Chait defends himself and journo-list. It was just a water-cooler list-serv that just happened to be open only to liberals whom Ezra Klein liked. (Why writers and reporters cannot kibbitz one on one or share their private thoughts by email outside such an exclusive list is beyond me.) Spencer Ackerman's post - and the obvious assumptions behind it - are just Spencer, and have nothing to do with Chait or anyone else at Journolist. And there's no double standard between Chait's...
The Toxic, Hidden Toll
Thomas Morton travels down to Louisiana to talk with environmental experts and "our nation's most well-spoken rednecks" and comes back with this unvarnished look. Here's Part 2 and Part 3.
Louisiana - United States - Bobby Jindal - Gulf of Mexico - Business and Economy
Almost Human
David Gelernter imagines the next leap forward in artificial intelligence:
Emotion summarizes experience. If
subtle emotion you happen to feel on the first warm, bright day
spring (an emotion that has no name) is similar to the emotion you
the first time you took a girl to the movies, this particular
might connect the two events; and next year's first warm spring
might cause you to remember the girl and the movie.
No computer will be creative unless it can...
Reporting 101
Ambinder has some suggestions for journalists:
Study cognitive science. Figure out how minds work. Be suspicious about patterns and be knowledgeable about probability.
Don't be self-righteous.Journalists working for big newspapers, magazines, television networks,or websites are privileged to have the platform and should be humbleabout using its power.
Be humble about conclusions. Thisis not to say that you can't make them. It is to say that if yourconclusions aren't provisional, then they...
A Celebrity Double-Standard?
Sady Doyle underscores one:
When you compare the sins of Mel Gibson (racism, threats of violenceand rape, sexism, allegedly punching his girlfriend while she heldtheir child) to the crimes of Lindsay Lohan (doing drugs, drunkdriving, being generally unprofessional) it seems clear that one ofthem has had to work a bit harder to become infamous. And men seem tohave more avenues open for rehabilitation: Just look at all theadoration reserved for Robert Downey, Jr. and Mickey Rourke, men whose
Face Of The Day
An adult Puffin watches from the cliff tops on Skomer Island on July20, 2010 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The island, which has the biggestPuffin colony in Southern Britain, plays host to over 10,000 Puffins,who come from April to the end of July to breed. The small island, offthe coast of southwest Wales and managed by the Wildlife Trust of Southand West Wales, is one of the most important and accessible seabirdbreeding sites in Europe and has become a Mecca for wildlife and birdlovers. By...
McCannabis
Thoreau notices:
Oakland is doing the utterly predictable, and contemplating factory farming of a taxable crop.
When politicians view something as a revenue source, they want more of
it, and they are prepared to get in bed with any businessman who can
make that happen. Most significantly, if it's a source of tax revenue
they are perfectly happy to provide security for those businessmen,
which means that you get the sort of businessmen who don't have their
own street gangs and hitmen.
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