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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): Shaun Mullen at the Moderate Voice: It is no accident that there are so many older African-Americans waiting in the long lines […]
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Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): In an American Prospect article, “Business as Usury,” Thomas Geoghegan writes: “Had we protected the poor and the weak, the problems of […]