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