It’s been a cathartic day going after AIG and the bonuses. It’s a political chocolate factory; free righteous indignation about the bonuses (nobody’s mentioning the billions going to banks through AIG that don’t need them. Elliot Spitzer (yes him) wrote interestingly about that on Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/). Chuck Grassley last night called for the bonus boys … Read more
Today marks the death of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Published since the civil war, nothing could stop this paper, except our situation today. Hearst, who owns it and killed it today, promises a dynamic online replacement. What will it replace? What is now lost? Interestingly the SeattlePI.com website has a strong video about what will … Read more
Gradually coming into focus is the very harsh prospect of a world without newspapers. McClatchy just announced more job cuts, the LA Times is becoming a shadow of what it was. The Rocky Mountain News is gone and the SF Chronicle may be the first newspaper to go, leaving a major city newspaperless. The NY … Read more
Rush Limbaugh has cornered the Anti-Obama rhetoric market now. Not afraid to wish the country ill if it means hurting the president he goes way, way out there. Will the GOP lemmings run out there too? Looks like! Jonathan Alter in Newsweek: ” . . . Rush’s audience remains huge, with a weekly audience of … Read more
World Press Cartoon Week in Lisbon was amazing. The judging went on for three days and I got to be there along with four wonderful artists. Great Cuban cartoonist Aristides “Ares” Hernandez by me. He had been a psychiatrist in Havana but realized that he could do better as a freelance cartoonist sending his work … Read more
