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When great songs have great videos, life is good.
(By the way, I know I’m totally ripping off CrooksandLiars’ “Late Night Music Club” with the “tonight on YouTube” thing. I’m ok with that. Hopefully you are, too.)
Sometimes sarcasm is the only healthy response. Yglesias is apparently a very healthy (and quite funny) man.
The NYTs has a moving article by Edward Rothstein on the personal papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rothstein manages to quickly cover not only King’s theology, but also the challenges of his transition from struggling with legal segregation in the South to poverty and ghetto-ization in the North, in only two pages. If you only know the iconic King of American pop culture, read this. I can’t imagine a better two page introduction to King’s thinking.
Atrios makes a funny about TNR and Murthan Infallibility.
Poor blacks in New Orleans sued on Tuesday to stop the government from replacing public housing units with mixed-income dwellings, calling it a discriminatory move that would bar them from coming home after Hurricane Katrina.
You’ve got to respect the power of the Kos community and the inclusive non-hierarchical way in which it is designed (layers of diaries, front page access to readers, etc.), but things like this prove that it is really just an energetic community of mainstream political activists: supporting not simply those who advocate positions they admire and from a party of which they are a part, but also those who support them. That’s fine, but it’s important that in rhetoric and coverage we don’t mistake them for some sort of reform-oriented ideological political movement.
That’s what this blogger is claiming. I can imagine James Dobson’s head exploding if he read this. [via: Andrew Sullivan]
The Guardian has a profile of Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City who may be on the verge of becoming President of Mexico:
Depending on who you talk to, the presidential candidate, who holds a narrow lead in the opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s Mexican elections, is the great hope of the downtrodden, a messianic danger to stability or a crafty pragmatist. This son of a shopkeeper from the marshy backwaters of south-eastern Mexico is striking a chord and inciting discord in a country where half the population is poor and the richest 10% own 45% of the wealth.
While my Spanish isn’t good enough to understand much of it, I also found a video of Lopez Obrador on YouTube that at least gives you a sense of his temperament (it’s amazing how much can be understood about the person without following many of the words).
Slate has the headlines, Passport has the world!