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Newest Blog Entries:
NYT: New Stadiums: Prices, and Outrage, Escalate
Fans will be subsidizing billionaire boxes and millionaire martinis. Disgusting.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Album reaches #4 on Billboard in first week
Over 40 Olympic athletes in Beijing download Tibet solidarity album 'Songs for Tibet'Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NYT (4): Environment/Energy
"Will global warming give Greenland its independence?"; "eco-friendly" economic stimuli; a "green" baseball stadium fights to prevent oil company ads; and in NYS, "a new law allowing more gas wells comes with a cautionary note."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, July 27, 2008
AlterNet: Reborn MLB Slugger Josh Hamilton Is One Lucky Former Drug Addict
Why cannot the terrible waste of mney caused by the failed 'War on Drugs' be turned to treatment and education.Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, July 20, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (5)
"The mental health toll of multiple combat tours" (Herbert); Godwin on Zimbabwe; "The president's leadership traits, for better and worse" (Brooks); "Linguistic change isn't the same as behavioral change" (Klinkenborg on 'carbon footprints'); and a paean to Carlin from Seinfeld.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, June 24, 2008
NYT Guest Op-Ed: Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer
"There's only one way to save the Olympics: get rid of them."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, April 13, 2008
This totally saddens ME~Tibet denied entry in Olympics by IOC under pressure from CHINA?
Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Monday, December 10, 2007NYT Magazine: Political Games
"Will human rights advocates bring home any medals from the Beijing Olympics?"Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 23, 2007
NYT: University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises
Real live principled civil disobedience is apparently alive and well in one of the places of its "birth" in the U.S. Bravo!Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, September 13, 2007
