Archive for October 11th, 2008

  • actual journalism

    Courtesy of McClatchy:
    WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.
    Commentators say that’s what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They’ve [...]

  • Ohio hope.

    One snippet from George Packer’s long and very good article in a recent New Yorker:
    Price and I drove down Route 33 from Athens, into Meigs County and a town called Pomeroy, which once had been a loading dock for coal barges and now lay prostrate and blighted along the Ohio River. Across the river was [...]