Hot links from recent days: A space rock 100′ wide came within a few miles of hitting Earth … The Beach Boys + Ray Charles = Awesomeness … US immigration policies bring […]
Nota Bene #55
Hello, Mike Sheehan here, taking up Nota Bene again. Many thanks to my friend and colleague Russ Wellen for handling NB for so long! Hot links from recent days: Crisis in the […]
Nota Bene #54
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Shashank Bengali, McClatchy News, Israel’s destruction of U.S.-style school shocks Gazans: “It seems that targeting our school . . . was one […]
Nota Bene #53
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Bill Simmons, ESPN.com, the Sports Guy, on the airliner guided to a crash-landing in the Hudson River: And was anyone else on […]
Nota Bene #52
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Warren Strobel, McCatchy’s Nukes & Spooks, blogging from Tehran: . . . rumors are running rife in Tehran’s huge central bazaar that […]
Nota Bene #51
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair, The Devil at 37,000 Feet, about a 2006 airplane collision over the Amazon jungle: [The pilots] were operating […]
Nota Bene #50
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Diana Henriques, the New York Times, Bailout Monitor Sees Lack of a Coherent Plan: “Our objectives in asking Congress for a financial […]
Nota Bene #49
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet, Obama to the Economic Rescue: Why not hire people who were right all along, and not historic failures who […]
Nota Bene #48
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Michael Lewis, Portfolio, The End: Eisman knew subprime lenders could be scumbags. What he underestimated was the total unabashed complicity of the […]
Nota Bene #47
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): John Heileman, New York magazine, The Next New Deal: “Personally, I think the depth of the Obama realignment is being underestimated,” says […]
