I was joking around with some friends over the weekend: would the revolution have an Evite? While we decided it probably would not – some experimenting today showed me there was no reason the 2008 Presidential Election could not. Click here to RSVP for the 2008 Presidential Election
‘Survivor’ On Mayan Culture
Somehow I don’t remember hearing that sacred Maya rituals were for $1 million. The organization Natives Against Media Stereotypes isn’t too happy: Contestants fought with each other and pushed and shoved each other for the chance to win $1 Million dollars. Thursday night’s show much more resembled a football game where the fans adorn themselves […]
Pabst City Project Falls Through
Two years and two days ago, I blogged about a massive urban redevelopment project planned for the former brewery of Pabst Blue Ribbon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Pabst City. The project was mind-boggling in scale: it was to cost over $300 million to convert seven blocks of the brewery’s historic structures into stores, apartments, and […]
Got an Idea?
SEIU has launched a website soliciting ideas to improve the lives of working families – the website is called SinceSlicedBread.com. They’re looking for ideas – in 175 words – that are original, creative, and have a good chance of practical success, and which: * Grow the economy * Create good-paying jobs that allow people to […]
Rent Control in D.C.
Council member Jim Graham is going to introduce a stronger rent control law for the District: Dear Friends, It’s time for some real rent control in the District of Columbia! Many of us have watched rental prices go up, up, up… despite the rent control law the Council wisely and recently extended for five years. […]
A Student Think Tank?
I attended an event today held on Capitol Hill hosted by the new “student think tank” the Roosevelt Institution event on Capitol Hill today launching their new policy journal. Speaking were Doug Bailey, founder of the Hotline, Quinn Wilhelmi, executive Director of the Roosevelt Institution, and Jesse Wolfson, the editor of their new journal, The […]
New Orleans Photos
My friend Eric is an intelligence officer with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. He just returned from his deployment in New Orleans, and has posted over 100 photos he and his friends took while there to Flickr. See the Flickr photo set here. He even got to meet Senator Collins, being the […]