Monthly Archives: September 2008

Barack Obama’s Economic Plan

September 18, 2008
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Barack Obama has released a 2-minute video about our current economic crisis. No bells and whistles here. No expansive shots with rousing music and cheering crowds. It’s just Obama, talking about what’s wrong with our economy and what he plans to do to turn things around. This is a smart man with an intelligent plan. Read Barack Obama’s economic plan in detail here. The Basics: 1) $1,000 energy rebate to families, paid for by the oil companies 2) Creation of American jobs through fair trade 3) Creation of 5 million green jobs 4) Creation of jobs through investment in...

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Paul Auster Tonight

September 16, 2008
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I’ll be talking with Paul Auster tonight at City Arts and Lectures. Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m.

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Disturbing Sarah Palin Photo Surfaces; McCain Defends Palin’s Obscene Hand Gesture

September 15, 2008
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Disturbing Sarah Palin Photo Surfaces; McCain Defends Palin’s Obscene Hand Gesture

After this reader-submitted photo was published in the Anchorage Daily News, featuring Sarah Palin surrounded by high school boys and possibly flashing the peace sign, the McCain campaign released this strong statement: The left-wing liberal news media seeks to belittle Sarah Palin’s character by implying that she was exhibiting the peace sign. In fact, she was merely showing her allegiance to an Alaskan youth gang called Virginity Now, whose official motto is “Abstinence until marriage, unless your boyfriend is a hot high school hockey star.” To hint that Sarah Palin is a proponent of peace is flat-out wrong and,...

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David Foster Wallace

September 15, 2008
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In an obituary by Bruce Weber in the New York Times today, David Foster Wallace’s father, James Wallace, talks about his late son’s long battle with depression. His father said Sunday that Mr. Wallace had been taking medication for depression for 20 years and that it had allowed his son to be productive. It was something the writer didn’t discuss, though in interviews he gave a hint of his haunting angst. “He was being very heavily medicated,” he said. “He’d been in the hospital a couple of times over the summer and had undergone electro-convulsive therapy. Everything had been...

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David Foster Wallace on John McCain

September 13, 2008
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David Foster Wallace was found dead in his home last night from an apparent suicide by hanging. (See previous post). For interviews and other links about the work of David Foster Wallace, who won a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1997 and published an impressive and critically acclaimed body of work, see Saturday’s post. Read yesterday’s New York Times article about Wallace here. Recently, David Foster Wallace has been critical of John McCain, whom he once praised as “the great populist hope of American politics” in an 80-page essay commissioned by Rolling Stone. The background: In 2000, David Foster Wallace...

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