A federal law requires that New York State replace its voting machines with new ones by the ’06 elections. But local officials say that’s practically impossible. Will New York miss the deadline, and miss out on federal funding to boot?
Body and Soul
Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale University and author, Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human (Basic Books, 2004),
on why humans are hard-wired to believe in the supernatural
» Is God an Accident? ...
on why humans are hard-wired to believe in the supernatural
» Is God an Accident? ...
How Will You Vote in 2006?
Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
- on the inadequacies of New York's electronic voting machines
» New Yorkers for Verified Voting homepage
- on the inadequacies of New York's electronic voting machines
» New Yorkers for Verified Voting homepage
The Train Has Left the Station
Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter
- on the transit workers' new contract
and
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Professor of Sociology, author How Class Works: Power and Social Movement (Yale University Press, 2003)
- on the pros and cons of the TWU contract
» ...
- on the transit workers' new contract
and
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Professor of Sociology, author How Class Works: Power and Social Movement (Yale University Press, 2003)
- on the pros and cons of the TWU contract
» ...
Sending Limbo to Hell
Ed Vacek, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Professor of Moral Thought
- on doing away with limbo
- on doing away with limbo
Vacation!
BL Blogger is on vacation from Thursday, the 29th of December, 2005, returning on January 3, 2006.
We'll be back with required reading, photos, and your observations, next Tuesday. And of course the BL Show will air every weekday morning, blog or no.
Photo File: Errol Louis and Beth Fertig
Guest host Errol Louis chats with yesterday's guest host, Beth Fertig
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