By Steve
Wednesday November 12, 2008
- Generation O gets its hopes up: Only a Fugees-loving, pick-up-basketball-playing, biracial president-elect would send supporters an e-mail message on election night that said: “I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.” He signed it simply “Barack.” (NY Times)
- Stunning photos of the next President of the United States (Boston Globe)
- How Obama tapped into social networks’ power (NY Times)
- Sarah Palin defends herself against criticism (Fox)
- New Generation Dance Company: Whiplash footwork and not a moment of hesitation (NY Times)
- Past is back: Deer hunting frontier style (NY Times)
- Pastor in Chief: President-elect Obama is the first Pastor in Chief of the new age of spirituality. If he fulfills the promise of his campaign, if he leads by listening, if he welcomes each of us to a purpose larger than ourselves, he will be rewarded by an outpouring of commitment that offers a real chance to overcome some of our most vexing problems. Nothing less will suffice by Timothy Shriver (Washington Post)
- Burma activists sentenced to 65 years each in draconian crackdown (Times)
- Post-election trauma for Obama supporters (The Onion, hey, it’s satire. Take a chill pill)
- Q&A: Simeon Lipman, curator of the Punk/Rock Auction at Christie’s (Yuppie Punk)
- Urban cowboys struggle with India’s sacred strays (NY Times)
- Hands-on: Digital Praise’s Christian-themed ‘Guitar Hero’ clone (Wired)
- Evangelist Billy Graham at 90: the man frail, the legacy strong (USA Today)
- Lupe Fiasco bowing out with triple-disc set? (Billboard)
- Obama and the bishops By Richard John Neuhaus (First Things)
- Michael Crichton’s legacy: Science and humanity properly understood by S. T. Karnick (Weekly Standard)
- Michelle Obama keeps focus on her family (USA Today)
- Veterans Day: The long march of time. A Bataan survivor ends one journey and begins another (Washington Post)
- Flaming Lips’ freaky, martian musical finally touches down (Wired)
- Church has place in new planned community (UMNS)
- Michelle Obama: a new type of First Lady (Times)
- This election has not ‘realigned’ the country. What 2008 has in common with 1980 by Jennifer Marsico (Wall Street Journal)
- ‘Pray The Devil’: Liberia’s stern, solid sisterhood (NPR)
- Icons of pop music: Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello. (PopMatters)
- Did ‘Cosby’ pave way for Obama? (CNN)
- A torn fabric in the public square: The election of Obama by Helen Alvare (Culture of Life Foundation)
- When chocolate is a way of life (NY Times)
- Berkeley changes with the times: Nestled in the Berkeley Hills, Cal is home to Nobel laureates, the first cyclotron, berkelium and a spirited student body. (LA Times)
- Nuns in Italy restraurant brawl: A priest and two nuns have allegedly beaten up a restaurant boss in the village of Rutino near Salerno in southern Italy. (BBC)
- Barack Obama’s opinion on…saggy pants (MTV)
- Rebuilding racial bridges in a divided church: Now that the historic 2008 election is over, we need to get busy with the work of reconciliation by J. Lee Grady (Charisma)
- Free the Gunpowder Plot One: Was one of the Gunpowder Plotters an innocent victim of circumstance? As effigies of Guy Fawkes again go up in flames, is it time to rectify a 400-year-old miscarriage of justice? (BBC)
- Rockaways on film: Salty tales and salt air (NY Times)
- Alarming growth of homeless families with kids (USA Today)
- Old South meets new, in living color (NY Times)
- Atheist Richard Dawkins warns Harry Potter could have ‘negative effect on children’ (Daily Mail)
- The Richard Dawkins delusion: Science writer displays small mind in ‘Potter’ put-down by Scott Galupo (Washington Times)
- Ben Harper rocks out with new band (Billboard)
- Cool book alert: ‘French Milk’ by Whitney Matheson (USA Today)
- HBO inaugurates Obama doc: Edward Norton production began in 2006 (Variety)
- Ex-mob boss going straight: Former ‘Yuppie Don’ testifies to power of a higher authority (The News Times)
- Pro-life groups jolted by election defeats (AP)
- Barack Obama asked gay bishop Gene Robinson what it was like to be ‘first’ (Times)
- Abortion foes’ dilemma: Confront or cooperate? (Wall Street Journal)
- Sacred steel music bonds family band (Red and Black)
- Adults only? NBC won’t pay for review, so Finland bans ‘Little House’ for kids (USA Today)
- Techno-alchemy at the opera (NY Times)
- Mind Over Matter 4: The Images of Pink Floyd (PopMatters)
- Catholic bishops plan to forcefully confront Obama (Chicago Tribune)
- Homina, Homina, Homina by Elizabeth Glass-Turner (Big Red Couch)
- Bush: ‘I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said’ (CNN)
- Dylan goes knock, knock, knockin’ on Neil’s door (Globe and Mail)
- Mischief in Minnesota? Al Franken’s recount isn’t funny. For example, there was Friday night’s announcement by Minneapolis’s director of elections that she’d forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car. The Coleman campaign scrambled to get a county judge to halt the counting of these absentees, since it was impossible to prove their integrity 72 hours after the polls closed. The judge refused on grounds that she lacked jurisdiction. (Wall Street Journal)
- The whitewashing of Stalin: He had the blood of millions on his hands, yet Joseph Stalin has escaped Hitler-style demonisation, and even become a trendy pin-up. Why has history been so kind to this murderous leader? (BBC)
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