Sorry it's been so long between updates. As I mentioned before, I've been working as the cook at ECC again this summer. This has significantly limited my free time, or at least led me to waste my free time by doing things other than blogging.
Right now, though, I'd like to link you to two mostly unrelated items that have found their way into my consciousness in the past two days.
First, apparently there's a "book" (more of a pamphlet, again, apparently) out called "The Rhode Island Republican," which addresses (among other things) a blog I read regularly called RIFuture.org. It's a blog about progressive politics that I don't always agree with, but usually find interesting and always find insightful. You can read Pat Crowley's (amused) post about the pamphlet's criticism here. All I'd like to add in this post is that, politics aside, the civility of debate in this country continues to be astonishingly low. What a bizarre world we live in where a man who attended an Ivy League school can complain, without a hint of irony, that his political opponents also attended Ivy League schools, and that such an education is a bad thing.
Second, Anderson Cooper went to Haiti the other day and chose to accept an award from the government of that country. Reaction in the journalism blogs I follow has been mostly negative, and I'm inclined to add my voice to the crowd. There's no reason to be accepting an award on the six-month anniversary of a tragedy for your (small) contribution to a recovery that hasn't exactly been a success, and isn't even close to over. That goes for anyone and everyone involved (Other honorees included Sean Penn and the head of the UN Peacekeeping mission). I just wouldn't feel right accepting such an award, probably ever. The fact that Cooper professes to be a journalist should only have strengthened such a conviction. (via CJR)
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