Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Planned Parenthood + Palin = Profit
From the New York Times, “Cashing in on a G.O.P. Star“:
As of Friday, Planned Parenthood had taken in $802,678 in donations from 31,313 people, said a spokesman for the organization, Tait Sye. More than two-thirds of the individuals are first-time donors to Planned Parenthood, Mr. Sye said, and money came in from all 50 states.
Ms. [...]
David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
I was an English major as an undergraduate, so when something ripples (or thunders) through the literary world, I feel it, even if I’m only familiar with the source in a cursory fashion.
Keeping that in mind, the literary world (and the world at large) lost one of its most brilliant, energetic, driven minds when author [...]
November fear
I’ve been doing my best to not comment about the upcoming November election. Thankfully, I have a coworker with a master’s in political science, who gave me some excellent political enlightenment today, and I have another coworker who is selflessly voting on behalf of his non-citizen wife. But I think a lot of the gravity [...]