Article about 60 Minutes interview with Captain Sullenberger forces passengers to relive reliving of ordeal.

and my friend Steve Young, the Program Director at the Poetry Foundation. You guys rock, even if you are kind of a lefty, Steve.

I’m still working on the other platform that was very kindly set up by our benefactor, so if you’re interested, please email me at vermontaigne-at-gmail-dot-com. We are beginning with 1599, which is the most accessible of the texts. If you want to get an idea of the subject matter, that’s a good place to start–minimal investment on a book you should probably read anyway, if you’re interested in Shakespeare. When

So funny! [B]ut near the end of the show things turn tasteless as well. Ferrell/Bush asks the audience for a moment of silence to honor our troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the performance I saw, most of the audience members went silent but a few tittered nervously. Who can blame them? This is a comedy show. They were expecting a gag, and they soon got one. After

Gates summarizes. “I thought it could be fun, without even using the word, to do a postmodern Lincoln.” ******* “All of a sudden I find out Lincoln used the ‘N’ word, Lincoln liked ‘darky’ jokes, Lincoln liked minstrel shows.” Great googly moogly! How post-modern can you get?

Station owners who say they lose money on Progg radio? Liars! Conspiracy! NPR? Not progressive enough! Fairness Doctrine! Bill Press! Insinuation! Investigative journalism? The Ownership Society: “The president’s top man on the economy is the president,” says Larry Summers, one of the president’s top men on the economy, director of the National Economic Council. “These days, everybody thinks they’re economists,” President Barack Obama lamented last week, in arguing that critics

WSJ on the Shite Dagwood: Instead, Mr. Obama chose to let House Democrats write the bill, and they did what comes naturally: They cleaned out their intellectual cupboards and wrote a bill that is 90% social policy, and 10% economic policy. (See here for a case study.) It is designed to support incomes with transfer payments, rather than grow incomes through job creation. (h/t Darleen) Screwjob: Obama Bans Non-Union Contractors

A bipartisan commission in the state Legislature investigated allegations that Palin fired [Public Safety Commissioner] Monegan after he refused to sack her ex-brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten. The governor, first elected in 2006, has denied wrongdoing. In court papers, Palin called her sister’s ex-husband a “rogue trooper” who threatened the governor’s family during a bitter divorce and custody battle. Complaints from Palin’s family led to a five-day suspension for the

Mother and father of slain Cole sailor write an open letter to the President. An excerpt: President Obama, now I fear these sailors who died in the service of the United States will be abandoned again. It will be one more tragedy in a long list of tragedies in the Cole attack. With the suspension of the trials at Guantanamo Prison, we are deeply and painfully concerned that Abd al

Inquiring minds want to know: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s office moved on Friday to quash claims he attended a mystery concert featuring ABBA lookalikes singing to him from behind a veil at a military-style compound. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacted after the London-based Bjorn Again, a long-established act that imitates 1970s pop super-group ABBA, said it had put on a show, cloaked in secrecy, for Putin, seven male guests