[First name of a candidate]! and pre/2 [last name of a
candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or
charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra
or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or
controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or
layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict!
or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired
or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or
controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or
firearm!
Jan Williams, with Monica Goodling,at page 21.
After the fluff, the meat:
In the national level, bipartisanship usually means Democrats ignore the needs of the poor and abandon the idea that government can play a role in issues of poverty, race discrimination, sex discrimination or environmental protection.
The Long Run: Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Apart
By JODI KANTOR
Published: July 30, 2008
In his 12 years as a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, Barack Obama was popular and enigmatic.
A. Yes, because do you know how white people consume "The Wire"?
Netflix subscription watched on their MacBook.
-- Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to
the Unique Taste of Millions.
See also Salon interview.
Life in the East Village, the Bowery, the Lower East Side, NY.
[via NYT/New York Region
East Village Protesters Denounce All Things Gentrified. It's a Tradition.
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: June 15, 2008
You know it's summer in the East Village when the protesters show up,
speaking against gentrification and its perceived agents.]
[Via Parenting]
-- Corina Copp, Fence14
-- Ben Wolfson.
An article last Sunday about the fashion industry’s
reticence to use black models referred incorrectly
to a black woman in a maid’s outfit pictured in the
September issue of Italian Vogue.
She was, in fact, a maid at the hotel where the pictures
were taken, and was included, the Vogue photographer
said, because of her attractiveness and her ability to
underscore the pictures’ theme of a stereotypical
rich white woman who hires ethnic servants; the
black woman was not a model dressed as a maid.
Despite their image as meritocratic beacons of opportunity,
the selective colleges serve less as vehicles of upward mobility
than as transmitters of privilege from generation to generation.
(*) Also including those with a paucity of merit.
See also The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and
Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, by Jerome Karabel (2006).