Thursday, October 30, 2008
“Credit,” “Default,” “Swap,” and “Rerun.” Despite the best efforts of the staffs of both “Planet Money” and “This American Life,” I still don’t quite get the whole concept of credit default swaps. I listened to their collaboration, “Another Frightening Show About the Economy” at least four times, trying to wrap my brain around it, and [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It’s an uphill battle explaining that Kerry and I aren’t the Radio Sweethearts mentioned above. Those Sweethearts are Bob Garfield, Brooke Gladstone, and The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. That said, we’ve grown to love the title. Okay, we’re sweethearts. Okay, we run a blog about the radio. It may as well be [...]
On particularly rough and stressful days, I tend to go in search of good news that’s a little more heart warming than people dancing to “Thriller” or potential assassins being caught. Those things are great and all, but they’re not as great as this: Elephant 6 is on tour again. “All Songs Considered” has posted [...]
This week’s “On the Media” features a wide variety of reportage on such widely divergent topics as the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, and The Onion. I hate to sound cynical; I know the election’s important. Kerry’s already voted. I’m still trying to figure out what to [...]
Our webhost is moving us to a new server sometime in the next 72 hours. We should be back up and running (if we go down at all) by Monday. Have a great weekend! (photo from here)
Thursday, October 23, 2008
It seems that stocks are sliding again, despite the Dow having its largest single-day gain in history earlier. I don’t know what that means. I’m trying incredibly hard to understand what’s going on, but it’s all numbers to me, even when someone tries to explain it to me. All I know is that I like [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This afternoon, we got a tip from the lovely Aaron Hicklin from Out Magazine about the first in their ongoing series of 100 awesome gay men and women who are changing politics and culture. The first man in the lineup? NPR Justice Department Correspondent and frequent voice on my drive to work, Ari Shapiro. If [...]
What you see above may not seem like it, but it is among the longest drives you can make. Psychologically, anyway. Were it longer, it could take more than one day – which would be preferable, as you would be able to sleep. Instead, it takes eight hours to get from Memphis to my parents’ [...]
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I love “Story Corps” as much as the next girl, but I tend to knowingly avoid it because it’s like the bad boy that you shouldn’t be into but totally are. If you stay away, it can’t make you cry. A few days ago, I found out about “Radio Diaries” from one of Amanda‘s tweets. [...]