Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt: Why now is a Terrible Time to be young.

Posted by leboheme at 03:06 PM

U.S. Is Settling Detainee's Suit in 9/11 Sweep (NY Times)

Workers ask 2nd vote (NY Daily News)

Hill Fires Back at Karl Rove (NY Post)

Baseball Hall of Fame to honor first woman (Baltimore Sun)

Mardi Gras Dawns With Some Traditions in Jeopardy (NY Times)

A Lion of Journalism: Otis Chandler 1927-2006 (LA Times)

A Reversal of the Tide in India: Tech Workers Flow Home to More Success

and a "most-emailed" article from 2/23: Inquiring Gringos Want to Know (LA Times)

Posted by leboheme at 11:51 AM

We asked Monday Morning Politics guest Peter Beinart for a book recommendation. His pick: Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone

Peter Beinart was in the news today as he steps down from the helm of The New Republic.

Posted by leboheme at 11:39 AM

Sarah Teale and Tom Simon, Producers of "Dealing Dogs" from HBO

Posted by leboheme at 03:43 PM

Analysis: in throes of sectarian crisis, Iraq's clerics are more powerful than politicians (LA Times)

Wal-Mart to expand health care for employees (LA Times)

Bloomberg wants 20,000 new middle-income homes on Manhattan's West Side (NY Daily News)

Spitzer distances himself from crime bill offered by running mate (NY Sun)

Ownership law co-authored by Jim Florio in the 1980s is back in the spotlight with Dubai ports fracas (Star-Ledger)

New DVD clubs cater specifically to liberals and conservatives (CS Monitor)

Posted by leboheme at 08:33 AM

Flicker's account: the talking cure for teachers

Posted by leboheme at 02:06 PM

It's Thursday, the day we like to publish your hatemail. Today we have a particularly captivating specimen written on embossed stationery:

Posted by leboheme at 02:02 PM

Port experts: foreign-run cargo terminals not a threat (LA Times)

Analysis: are Dubai ports critics stoking old fears of foreign ownership? (Washington Post)

Bloomberg: no cause for alarm over NY anthrax case (NY Daily News)

Manhattan clinic begins using leeches (NY Daily News)

Queens bridal shop owner runs for congress -- in Colombia (NY Sun)

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Gross!

Posted by leboheme at 05:06 PM

Bush defends Dubai ports deal (Washington Post)

A few brave Muslim journalists question response to Danish cartoons (NY Times)

In first day on the court, Alito shows himself an enthusiastic questioner (Washington Post)

Legionnaire's disease appears in places ravaged by Hurricane Katrina (LA Times)

Analysis: Summers shook Harvard up, for worse and for better (Boston Globe)

Reports of child abuse received by NYPD up 200% (NY Daily News)

Silvercup studios to expand on Long Island City waterfront (am NY)

Donald and Martha feud over "The Apprentice" (NY Daily News)

Posted by leboheme at 08:37 AM

Movie maniac (and former BL Show intern) Josh Horowitz

Black humor collector Paul Beatty

Posted by leboheme at 01:20 PM

Pataki joins effort to derail Dubai ports deal (NY Times)

Bil Perkins will run for Paterson's senate seat (am NY)

Corzine makes low-key debut in Trenton (NY Times)

PATH trains will get EZ-Pass-style "smart card" (The Record)

Movement to ban gay marriage extending to gay adoption (USA Today)

In 31st year on high court, liberal justice John Paul Stevens has considerable clout (Washington Post)

Posted by leboheme at 09:21 AM

A bad Jackie Mason-impersonator could have written this lede:

But seriously, Mr. Krugman, we love having you on our show! Please...come....back....soon!

[Paul Krugman on the BL Show 6/30/05]

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Board to protect civil liberties exists only on paper more than a year after its creation (LA Times)

Israel to cut off funds for Palestinians (NY Times)

More lawmakers object to Dubai ports deal (NY Times)

Tensions between Chinese government and the Chinese people play out on Wikipedia (Washington Post)

Index: Bloomberg 7th-most generous philanthropist in America (Slate)

More than half of states are considering limits to eminent domain (USA Today)

"Brokeback" a big winner at the Baftas (BBC)

Martha Stewart: it was Donald's fault my "Apprentice" was a flop (am NY)

Posted by leboheme at 08:49 AM

Maia Szalavitz talks boot camps

Radio Rookies Senior Producer, Kaari Pitkin, with two of this season's young radio rockstars, Edward Llanos and Amina Tariq

Posted by leboheme at 12:27 PM

City Council bill would ban even small gifts by lobbyists (NY Times)

NY Court of Appeals will give ruling on gay marriage (NY Sun)

McCain will rally for guest worker program in New York (NY Sun)

Dubai co. gets "final" approval to run NY-NJ ports (NY Times)

Ice rapidly turning to water in Greenland, a barometer for the planet (LA Times)

Blair: Guantanamo is an "anomaly" that must be "dealt with" (Guardian)

Conservatives split over how to approach China human rights abuses (CS Monitor)

Posted by leboheme at 10:26 AM

Writer Walter Mosley

Professor Robert Smith

Joe Baker of the AG's office

Posted by leboheme at 04:22 PM

Rene Preval will become Haiti's next leader under new agreement (NY Times)

Chertoff acknowledges some failures in Katrina hearings (Star-Ledger)

Cheney speaks to Brit Hume about hunting accident (Washington Post)

ABC releases Saddam tapes and dispute erupts within intel group (NY Sun)

Former Senator John Edwards joins hotel workers campaign (NY Times)

Bloomberg: I have no plans to run for prez (NY Daily News)

Westminster entrant bolts from JFK before flight (am NY)

Posted by leboheme at 08:45 AM

Cheney mishap causes tension in the White House (NY Times)

Army propaganda firm exaggerated accomplishments in order to win contracts (NY Times)

Abramoff netted $1.2m from Malaysia for finagling meeting with Bush (LA Times)

Cory Booker preparing second run for Newark mayor (NY Sun)

UFT indicates it might support tax credits for Catholic schools (NY Sun)

Freudian slips and racial codes characterize meeting on Brooklyn's Fulton Mall (The Observer)

Study: older suburbs suffer as cities and exurbs get all the attention (Washington Post)

Former "Friends" writer alleges sexual harrassment (NY Sun)

Posted by leboheme at 09:24 AM

Subject: Mistakes, Misstatements and Half-truths, Oh My!
Again, your guest from the German newsweekly is playing fast and loose with the truth.
As of 2001, according the U.S. Department of State, there was _no_ Muslim cemetery in Denmark. (State noted this as part of its human rights
assessment.) Whether Danes have allowed one since I do not know.
A number of Christian cemeteries have allowed Muslim sections -- generous, but which failed to meet full Muslim religious requirements.
-HS

Subject: Let him who is without Sin draw the first Cartoon
I have been slightly amused by the surprise of the American press on the outrage expressed by Muslims over the Danish cartoons. No one seems to recall the not so recent vituperative outrage and threats of violence against artists in this country who dared cast a man of African heritage in the role of Jesus in a show.

It strains credulity to listen to our sanctimonious pronouncements, while choosing to ignore the degree of rabid intolerance in this country. I think you owe your audience a reminder that we do not go into this with clean hands.
-BA

Subject: Hate Speech by any other name...
I agree with Mahmoud that the cartoons are most reflective of a latent hostility and racism that underlie the European societies in which Muslim minorities are growing. The cartoons are most reminiscent of caricatures of Jews and anti-semitic drawings in many contexts throughout Europe in the past. I would argue that the cartoons would qualify as hate speech-- and, while hate speech has been a thorny free speech issue in many nations, I believe that hate speech can and should be regulated.
-ML

Subject: What Would Jesus Say?
I just wanted to share a story that may otherwise not have become a big deal had the Danish cartoons not been published. I'm a grad student at Parsons School of design working on an MFA in Design and Technology. On Tuesday Feb 21 at the Fellissimo gallery in NYC I'm showing a censored version of an interactive art piece that i developed this past Fall. The piece is a projection of Da Vinci's Last Supper with speech bubbles above Jesus and four of the disciples, as a viewer of the piece you are able to text message your own content into any of the bubbles. In essence a viewer can make Jesus say 'I love you.'

The piece was accepted into the show, but the gallery came back and asked that the image be changed. The gallery didn't want the kind of attention that the piece might get given the reaction to the danish cartoons. I joked that I'd just use puppy dogs with speech bubbles, but I really didn't want to change the image. The piece was about the enabling power of mobile technology to comment on the world around us. In a way we are all our own embedded reporters and I wanted to give people a subject to report on, come what may. So my solution will be to remove the image, but leave the speech bubbles in place, and if you want the image to participate you can text my cell phone and I will send the image to your phone through MMS.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share since this topic is so hot and I think that my work has become a victim of it. (Click here to view the project)
-PN

From an American in Sweden
1. Muslins integrate and don't integrate based on the education level they had coming in to the country. the ones who do often still complain that their children are still referred to as immigrants meaning the society as a whole has not and will not accept them. Those who do not integrate don't because they marry cousins from their home countries and their children are educated in state sponsored muslim schools that don't teach women past the 8th grade. That infuriates swedes who are staunch believers in equality.

3. denmark and sweden are wonderful places to live and immigrants American or muslin should be so lucky. i can' remember the last time i saw a homeless person.
-DR

Subject: Danish Pride, Considered

I have never written to a program before but I just had to put in my five cents for whatever it's worth.
I am Danish. These past months controversy breaks my heart. Just the other day when the snow fell, I was standing in the Amish Marked and one of the cashiers, a young muslim woman, asked me how I felt about the snow, I smiled and said "I love the snow, I am used to it. I am from Denmark" as I walked away, I realized how this controversy has changed how I feel about telling people that I am Danish - I was ashamed and angry. It is odd me, who have always hated flags suddenly feeling anger in my heart at seeing the Danish flag being burned on the streets in the middle east.
It is funny Denmark has always been on the forefront in aiding developing countries, a lot of them muslim and suddenly none of this matters because of twelve cartoonist and one newspaper.
Also, Denmark is not a particularly religious society. I guess most of us are born Lutheran but few practice it or even care about it, so your guest point of making it a Christianity versus muslim issue is bogus.
This is a joke but there is also some truth to it, that most danish people visit the church three times in their lives:
1) when they are baptized
2) When they get married
3) And at their own funeral

I believe most people in Denmark have shown solidarity towards the muslims living there and have voiced their support through peaceful demonstrations and public debate.
-NK

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Posted by leboheme at 02:55 PM

Google News proves it again: the news is what you make of it.

Posted by leboheme at 12:25 PM

Cheney was missing a permit when he shot fellow quail hunter (The Smoking Gun)

Bloomberg feuds with Silver over schools (NY Daily News)

Weld would veto any move to legalize gay marriage in NY (NY Daily News)

"Don't Ask Don't Tell" cost at least $364 million over 10 years (Washington Post)

Fellow Democrats force Paul Hackett out of Ohio race (NY Times)

Dubai co. to take over two NY-NJ ports, Schumer opposed (NY Daily News)

Giuliani to rep America in Turin (MSNBC)

More than 8 in 10 Americans are "happy" or "very happy" (Washington Post)

Posted by leboheme at 09:10 AM

Making changes to the juvenile justice system in Brooklyn: The Hon. Alex Calabrese (l.) and Greg Berman (r.)

Posted by leboheme at 03:36 PM

UN Report says the US is Abusing Prisoners at Guantanamo (L.A. Times)

om/news/nationalnews/63441.htm">Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter (N.Y. Post)

Record Breaking Snowfall (N.Y. Daily News)

Republicans' Report on Katrina Assails Administration Response (N.Y. Times)

Fred Dicker: Dems Bickering over Paterson Seat (N.Y. Post)

from Sunday, Tutoring Funds Go Unused: (N.Y.Times)

Posted by leboheme at 01:04 PM

OK, so the re-make of The Producers sucked. But at least Broderick's still in demand.

Posted by leboheme at 03:41 PM

Ethical Grand Master Randy Cohen

Posted by leboheme at 01:06 PM

Ex-CIA big accuses WH of "cherry-picking" Iraq intel before war (Washington Post)

WH was informed of levy breach more than 24 hours earlier than clairmed (NY Times)

Bush describes planned Al Qaeda plot to attack LA, but details are sketchy (LA Times)

New details emerge of Reid-Abramoff ties (Washington Post)

Silverstein: Mayor plans "Soviet-style confiscation" at WTC site (NY Sun)

Aristide ally leads in Haiti poll (NY Times)

XM sattelite radio snags Oprah (NY Daily News)

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Posted by leboheme at 11:58 AM

Leaders of Muslim nations focused on Danish cartoons at meeting in December 2005 (NY Times)

Guantanamo hunger strikers are now being force-fed (NY Times)

DHS plans to get into data-mining big time (CS Monitor)

Cancer deaths decline for the first time in seven decades (USA Today)

Blogger-soldier wins fans among US conservos (LA Times)

Housekeeper to celebrities fesses up about what she stole (NY Times)

Posted by leboheme at 09:21 AM

Gore fille: sisters are doin' it for themselves

Posted by leboheme at 02:59 PM

Study casts doubt on low-fat diet (NY Times)

Seasoned weapons inspectors replaced by political ops at State Department (Knight-Ridder)

Under MTA plan, it will be harder to find workers in booths (NY Daily News)

Bloomberg and Council on collision course over trash (NY Sun)

In wake of quake, many Pakistani girls attend school for the first time (CS Monitor)

Bush rebuked at Coretta Scott King Service (LA Times)

Editorial: Bloomy for prez? (NY Sun)

Posted by leboheme at 08:57 AM

Every so often we get pitched an idea or guest that is so off-base we just have to share it with you.
-ed.

Posted by leboheme at 02:54 PM

The Politicker notes that angry Muslims need not have fixed on the cartoons from a regional Danish newspaper, our own New York Post occasionally runs comics to outrage any mullah:

Posted by leboheme at 02:14 PM

Subject: Muslims are under attack

The Western Media is uniformly focusing the democratic right to speak, write or draw an opinion. However, no one is addressing the issue of racism, and religious bigotry that these hideous cartoons convey. Would similar cartoons about Jews or Blacks be published in the West?

Today, in the West, we have open season on Muslims.
Islamic cultural history is deemed backwards, vengeful and violent. A foreign western army is occupying Iraq. Through out the world Muslim persons and countries are under siege. It is only human that the reaction is such by the besieged.
-TS

Subject: Philosophical versus Physical

I would like to know why the dialogue in the media regarding these cartoons has not focused on the violence associated with the protests. Why is there so little criticism of this violence? Even the governments of Denmark and Norway were quicker to criticize governments for not protecting their embassies than to criticize the violent protestors. Protest is crucial to democracy but violent protest is entirely unacceptable.
-SC

Subject: Bias bubbles to the surface

The Danish cartoons got it correct. The face of Islam to the world is the terrorist.

Other than Turkey, there is no predominantly Muslim country in which Non-Muslim's flourish. Muslim country's provide only one good to the world, Oil. They are not producers of culture, value added ideas, contributions to medical advancements, scientific insights or the arts. Your bias says to ignore all that and treat Muslims as if their sole human contribution to the world is destruction. I agree that there is no inherent reason that Muslims specialize in destruction. Their past societies have been open, advanced in science, mathematics, medicine and literature. Hiding the truth about today's Muslims does nothing of value.
-DR

Subject: Humor has a role!

All cartoons are not created equal. One of them was absolutely brilliant. I was at a dinner party the other night with two ex-music school parents (we meet in caves) and I described it to them: A group of charred, smoking figures on a cloud approach a man wearing a turban at heaven's gate. He flails his hands furiously in the air shouting "Stop, stop, we've run out of virgins!"

Lopping off the heads of infidels is all well and good, but one has to retain one's sense of humor.
-JM

Posted by leboheme at 01:45 PM

Righty-o Guv'nor: Hong Kong's final executive, Chris Patten

Posted by leboheme at 01:35 PM

Analysis: AG Gonzalez shared much time, but few details on spy program (Washington Post)

Analysis: media looks away after making big hoopla over NSA spy story (Washington Post)

London protester regrets decision to dress like a suicide bomber (Guardian)

CIA counter-terror chief asked to step down (LA Times)

Analysis: Bush budget makes big assumptions (Washington Post)

Study: Silverstein could make millions off WTC even if little is built (am NY)

Busta rhymes witnessed killing in Brooklyn (NY Daily News)

No-fault divorce recommended for NY State (NY Times)

Controversial Columbia prof promoted (NY Sun)

Posted by leboheme at 08:33 AM

The former face of the Pentagon, Torie Clarke

"Spin-Free Zone"-Victoria Clarke on The BL Show 2/6/06

Posted by leboheme at 04:03 PM

AT&T MCI, and Sprint complying with warrantless wiretap orders (USA Today)

Cole bombing co-conspirator escapes from prison in Yemen (NY Times)

Anti-Danish protests rock Beirut, Syria suspected in orchestrating violence (LA Times)

Most New Yorkers would welcome Wal-Mart in the 5 boroughs (NY Sun)

Wal-Mart will only sell "sustainable" fish (MSNBC)

Face transplant recipient goes public (BBC News)

Posted by leboheme at 08:51 AM

Judge: ex-EPA chief Whitman's concealment of 9/11 air data "shocks the conscience" (NY Daily News)

Politicians pummel MTA for slow-going on security measures (NY Daily News)

Newark Airport has the worst on-time record in the country (Star-Ledger)

Boehner capitolized on GOP dissatisfaction to win leadership post (Washington Post)

New Liberian president personally fires entire finance ministry (The Liberian Times)

The Met to return exquisite Greek vase to Italy (NY Times)

Posted by leboheme at 09:00 AM

Preferably for an object of greater value: a 1995 Ford cube van.

Through a chain of canny trades arranged with perfect strangers on the internet, blogger Kyle MacDonald has traded a little red paperclip for an 11 year old van used for transporting uniforms. What will he trade it for next? MacDonald says he's going for an island or a house. Ah, the power of the internet!

Oneredpaperclip.

Posted by leboheme at 01:02 PM

Chertoff faulted in Katrina report (LA Times)

House Republicans in feud over new lobbying rules (Washington Post)

In first SCOTUS decision, Alito breaks with court conservatives (LA Times)

Bloomberg budget includes $300m in cuts to cherished programs (NY Daily News)

Former NJ child advocate takes on Human Services job

"Monstruck" home goes on sale in Brooklyn Heights (NY Daily News)

Analysis: boys-are-neglected stories are overblown (Slate)

Posted by leboheme at 08:37 AM

Sorry, BL Blogger is overburdened!

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