TONIGHT ON PBS
My illustrated interview with Eduardo Porter on Inequality in America, on Need to Know. Wonderful animation by The Refinery. Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.
Steve
IS IT BAD TABLE MANNERS TO EAT YOUR FRIENDS?
Out of China, an amazing story about an animal rescue. This from the Washington Post: “BEIJING — The mutts were destined for the dinner table — all 520 of them crammed onto a truck hurtling down a Beijing highway toward awaiting restaurants in northeastern China. Then, fate intervened in the form of a passing driver, … Read more
Rowlandson and Me
Thomas Rowlandson, long-time hero of mine and of all artists of the sly-eye, has a show at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY . You can imagine my joy and honor to be asked by curator Patricia Phagan to do a talk at the gallery. Here are a … Read more
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE
Amazing things happen when great minds get together. The collective knowledge about Climate Change among Republicans in power is very edifying. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: The new Tea Party GOP have signaled their new approach to science. Speaker John Boehner has said that the threat of CO2 was not real. Perhaps he sees … Read more
THE END OF THE WORLD AT LAST
Yesterday saw an ominous election win for Democrat Kathy Hochul in the upstate District 26 special election. This, in a district where rock-ribbed conservatives become flaming socialists when the subject is Medicare, is the apocalypse, for sure. No Rapture sightings as yet.
