History
For some reason, the Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel doesn't mention this 1972 review of its earlier incarnation, the Sheraton Schroeder, on its history page: Eight days in the Sheraton-Schroeder is like three months in the Cook County jail. […] The room radiators are uncontrollable, the tubs won&
Politics
Before the results of the February 17 Wisconsin primary is announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 10: John Kerry $5,325 John Edwards 1,290 Howard Dean 440 Dennis Kucinich 251 Al Sharpton 245 Total amount: John Kerry $31,939 John Edwards 14,
Education
On my way home from work today, I passed by the Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, my neighborhood's middle school (and the world's finest—and perhaps only—example of red-checkerboard Stalinist architecture). Its signboard had this message: "Our children are learning". I'm
Politics
1. If you look at the state totals, you'd think that John Edwards would be happier with the Tennessee result (losing to Kerry by 15 points) than the Virginia result (losing to Kerry by 25), and perhaps he is. I'm not sure I would be. The
Politics
1. John Edwards' strategy in this primary was to get the "NASCAR dads" to vote for him, and he seems to have succeeded. Winning this segment of the vote is important, because it gives him a base (albeit a small one), and with a base, he has
Politics
Before the results of the February 10 primaries are announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 7: John Kerry $4,011 John Edwards 870 Howard Dean 760 Wesley Clark 690 Dennis Kucinich 485 Al Sharpton 5 Total amount: John Kerry $26,614 John Edwards
Politics
Before the results of the February 7 caucuses are announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 3: John Edwards $4,038 John Kerry 3,447 Howard Dean 1,737 Wesley Clark 1,647 Al Sharpton 235 Dennis Kucinich 190 Total amount: John Kerry $22,
Education
As I stumbled out of bed at 6am, volunteering to be an exhibit judge for the local junior division National History Day didn't seem like such a good idea. Ten of us—all quite awake, believe it or not—met at 8:45 in the Judges Room at
Media
From a book—a book I strongly recommend, for its on-going relevance—about press coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign: personallyprofessionally The Boys in the Bus Crouse has a point; certainly in my case. I was a journalist and a columnist in high school and college, and even today
Politics
You can now donate money to presidential campaigns through Amazon. After putting some money in John Edwards' jar, I looked at how much money each candidate had received so far: John Kerry $19,156 Howard Dean 10,078 Wesley Clark 9,007 John Edwards 8,134 Dennis Kucinich 1,
Miscellany
Eddie Thomas writes about those who forget history. Michael Blowhard asks "Is Bush a conservative?" Clay Shirky notes that people participate on-line for different reasons and with a different intensity than how they participate in real life, and suggests that the success of Howard Dean's
Remarks
A punchier way to describe what economists dryly call "the division of labor": Each one of us is ludicrously ignorant of something; most of us of most things. The whole difference between a conceited man and a modest one is concerned only with how far he is conscious