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Remains of the Day, 5/20/08


1. What’s Your Point, Honey? Coming to Cincinnati but maybe we can get it here too. I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow or later this week.

2. Bad American on a federal appeals court decision re: U.S. discriminates against the blind with its paper money.

3. Announcement: 5/22:

Presidential advisers, state legislators and medical authorities are among those gathering Thursday for Reforming Health Care: Improving Quality, Controlling Costs, Expanding Coverage, part of a series of Brookings Institution discussions dubbed Opportunity ‘08.

The event runs from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Intercontinental Hotel. It is open to the public, and anyone can reserve a seat by e-mailing opportunity08@brookings.edu.

Read more here.

4. May is Jewish American Heritage Month – and Lila blogs about it.

5. Examining the Hurdles for Black Feminists and White Feminists. I just can’t even start to say much about this at 10:43pm at night. But if you know anything about what I’ve immersed myself into lately, since WAM!2008, then you’ll be as happy as I was to find this blog and its post. Hattip to What Tami Said.

6. A little help from some friends – in the GOP no less re: not attacking Michelle Obama. As I wrote yesterday, hey, if anyone can make people set a new standard, no reason why it can’t be Barack Obama.

7. There are too many $&%*^#$* events I want to go to: Personal Democracy Forum, June 23-24 in NYC. Sigh. Will have to be next time.

8. Newspapers shares and newspaper company CEOs pay all decline, the former three times as much as the latter.

9. I once was lost, but now, I’m definitely found (media):

Found Media-ites, meanwhile, are the bloggers, the contributors to Huffington Post-type sites that aggregate blogs, as well as other work that somebody else paid for, and the new nonprofits and pay-per-article schemes that aim to save journalism from 20 percent profit-margin demands. Although these elements are often disparate, together they compose the new media landscape. In economic terms, I mean all the outlets for nonfiction writing that seem to be thriving in the new era or striving to fill niches that Lost Media is giving up in a new order. Stylistically, Found Media tends to feel spontaneous, almost accidental. It’s a domain dominated by the young, where writers get points not for following traditions or burnishing them but for amateur and hybrid vigor, for creating their own venues and their own genres. It is about public expression and community—not quite John Dewey’s Great Community, which the critic Eric Alterman alluded to in a recent New Yorker article on newspapers, but rather a fractured form of Dewey’s ideal: call it Great Communities.

10. Digby on the question of whether there are too many Democrats.

11. Wendy Hoke with a fantastic critique of how the Plain Dealer disappoints.

12. Ohio Daily Blog reviews Rasmussen poll that shows McCain and Obama tied in Ohio for the general election. If you thought Ohio was a battleground state in the past, just wait for 2008 to progress.

13. The world is falling apart when a size 8 is considered a plus size. I want to know now – who the eff decided that?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:01 pm May 20th, 2008 in Blogging, Culture, Democrats, Elections, Gender, Media, Ohio, Politics, Social Issues, WH2008, Women, Youth 

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One Response to “Remains of the Day, 5/20/08”

  1. 1 Anon on May 21st, 2008 12:54 am

    Of possible interest, a report on this year’s World Economic Forum on the Middle East (a.k.a. Davos in the Desert) held in Egypt. An extract:

    Next at the microphone is Tzipi Livni, foreign minister of Israel, and vice-prime minister, too. She is touted as the next PM, should Olmert take a tumble. [...]

    She is bright, canny, and exceptionally composed. She gives an impressive performance in front of a generally hostile audience. She makes no speech, gives no opening statement. She simply answers questions. This is one of the best Daniel-in-the-lions’-den performances I have ever witnessed.

    [LOTS MORE]

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