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 it […]
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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 do, […]
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!
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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 you […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Y’all, these are tough times. There are all kinds of heavy news events that deserve our full attention right now. But while the rest of the world frets over elections an economies, I’ve been needing something a little different.
Thankfully, I can usually rely on the “Diversions” section of NPR.org to have something to cleanse the […]
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
When I was a kid, my jetlagged father would wake up at 3 a.m. and go sit in the den and watch music videos that he had taped from MTV onto a VHS tape. Occasionally, I would wake up and go upstairs and we would watch child-appropriate 80’s videos.
As I remember the 80’s from music […]
One of the great joys of Monday mornings is listening to the new “This American Life” podcast. It tends to go well with my morning work routine. Today, though, I just couldn’t do it. Meaning, I listened to it, but tried not to listen too carefully.
This week, TAL brought back Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson […]
Thursday was one of the very first nights off of work that I’ve had in a very long time. How did I spend it, you ask?
Did I watch the Chicago Cubs game? No! I couldn’t even tell you what happened, despite an avowed affinity for the team.
Did I drink myself into a stupor while yelling […]
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tonight, vice presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Sarah Palin squared off at Washington University in St. Louis. Five hours away, Matthew and I squared off against Miller High Life while watching the debates at Zach’s house. Matthew live tweeted the entire assault on the English language over on our twitter.
He’s really grumpy about the debates. […]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Edit: I’ve edited the beginning of this post. I have my reasons. -Matthew
Something that needs to be said:
I feel that if this blog has proven anything, it’s that Kerry and I are deeply in love with this particular form of media. To realize that NPR’s communications department might think we don’t like them is somewhat […]
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