Archive for February, 2011
Go! You Packers! Go!
The Superbowl is underway, and I’m rooting for the Packers, because they have no owner–or rather, as left sportswriter Dave Zirin explained in a recent New Yorker blog post, they are owned by the fans. Now that Wisconsin has a right-wing governor and state legislature, I love that their beloved team is publicly owned and ...Read more.
Egypt; FCIC
(1) Egypt: The Associated Press is reporting that Hosni Mubarek is holding “resignation talks”; Robert Fisk (whose reporting from Cairo has been indispensable–scroll down for more suggested sources) has an article in the Independent on the latest news. The ambivalence of the Obama administration with respect to the broad popular uprising against Mubarek’s regime, and ...Read more.
