Posts Tagged ‘Dave Zirin’
Parade, Sports, Leftovers
(1) Are John Pike’s 15 Minutes Up Yet? I have read one good piece sympathetic toward the “casually pepper-spraying cop”: Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike, at The Atlantic. The point is that it’s structural, and there’s a nice review of changes in police tactics to deal with civil unrest: ...Read more.
Labor Victory, Greece, Clowns, etc.
A quick bunch of links–I have been having trouble finding time to do a proper blog post, for which I apologize. (1) Labor Victory in Ohio: NYT report; interesting piece in the New Republic (which I usually don’t have much use for). (2) Dean Baker on Greece: In the Guardian, for TM to show to ...Read more.
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.
