It has been quite a week.
Based on all that has happened, and all that is to come, now is a good time to re-read a profile of Stacey Abrams which appeared in The New Yorker in August, 2019.
Happy Sunday, everyone.
Showing posts with label The New Yorker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The New Yorker. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Thursday, January 22, 2015
New Books
I am going to check out all three, starting with Sophia, the biography of Sophia Duleep Singh. Sing, born in 1876, was the daughter of the last maharaja of the Punjab. According to The New Yorker's description of the book, Sing "was a trendsetter in everything from clothes to dog training. But by her early thirties she had joined the suffragettes, and she became a key figure in the movement." It sounds like an interesting life and I'm looking forward to reading this book.
Monday, March 23, 2009
The New Yorker, Shouts and Murmurs: "Tails of Manhattan" by Woody Allen
Woody Allen, writing for The New Yorker: Bernie Madoff walks into a restaurant . . .
(Via Huffington Post)
(Via Huffington Post)
Friday, October 17, 2008
Good News Baby Boomers
There is still time to become a genius. From The New Yorker, "[L]ate bloomers bloom late because they simply aren’t much good until late in their careers."
Perhaps late bloomers are instead entering a state of self-actualization, which Abraham Maslow defined as "the full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc." Or as Sister Donna said to her sixth grade class at Holy Innocents Grade School, "Bloom where you are planted."
Perhaps late bloomers are instead entering a state of self-actualization, which Abraham Maslow defined as "the full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc." Or as Sister Donna said to her sixth grade class at Holy Innocents Grade School, "Bloom where you are planted."
Moon over Madison.
Monday, July 21, 2008
McCain: Media are mean to me, too!
The McCain for President camp was apparently envious of the attention and free media generated for Senator Barack Obama by last week's New Yorker magazine flap.
Seeking to get into the spin, Senator McCain submitted to the New York Times an op-ed piece containing political boilerplate. The Drudge Report published the op-ed piece in full. The newspaper said, 'no thank you, but please try again after you fix some problems,' giving the McCain people an opportunity to gnash teeth and pull hair over the injustice of it all.
Getting rejected by the NYT could be the just the boost Sen. McCain needs to show his conservative chops.
A.P. report: New York Times defends not running McCain op-ed
Fox News' 'fair and balanced' coverage of the matter: McCain Campaign: New York Times Blocked Op-Ed Response to Obama.
Seeking to get into the spin, Senator McCain submitted to the New York Times an op-ed piece containing political boilerplate. The Drudge Report published the op-ed piece in full. The newspaper said, 'no thank you, but please try again after you fix some problems,' giving the McCain people an opportunity to gnash teeth and pull hair over the injustice of it all.
Getting rejected by the NYT could be the just the boost Sen. McCain needs to show his conservative chops.
A.P. report: New York Times defends not running McCain op-ed
Fox News' 'fair and balanced' coverage of the matter: McCain Campaign: New York Times Blocked Op-Ed Response to Obama.
Friday, July 18, 2008
New Yorker Magazine Cover Controversy Cont.
With consensus building this week that The New Yorker's cover depicting the Obamas as terrorists is a complete flop as satire, satire strikes back: check out this post from The Huffington Post.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The New Yorker Cover Controversy
The Financial Times today has a story about this week's controversial New Yorker cover. The cover depicts Senator Barack Obama as a Muslim and Michelle Obama as a terrorist. The New Yorker says it's satire.
An item presented as satire can, of course, at the same time be offensive. Given the amount of prejudice and violence in our country, past and present, I think that the cover shows poor judgment.
The FT reports that 19 percent of rural voters believed Sen. Obama was Muslim. If the fact that Sen. Obama practices Christianity cannot penetrate into this group of people, how likely are they to believe that this cover is satire?
An item presented as satire can, of course, at the same time be offensive. Given the amount of prejudice and violence in our country, past and present, I think that the cover shows poor judgment.
The FT reports that 19 percent of rural voters believed Sen. Obama was Muslim. If the fact that Sen. Obama practices Christianity cannot penetrate into this group of people, how likely are they to believe that this cover is satire?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)