Archives for October 2005

He’s the blackest white man you’ll ever encounter: listen to it yourself), made with Earl Hines on piano, about James Baldwin and what Bessie Smith meant to him. As soon as Goodman’s interview with this national treasure is posted, we’ll put up the link. In the meantime, listen to this radio drama: Part 1, Part […]

On An Overgrown Path? It has a delicious worldwide blogroll of radio stations that lets you listen to Bartok Radio, one of Hungary’s three nationwide channels, which broadcasts 24/7 from Budapest. Or check out Pliable, and has listed more than 60 other foreign and domestic stations. It’s a great service. –TSoT EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

You don’t get anything like the buckfush.com editorial illustration, below, anywhere in The New York Times. But the subscriber-based Talking Points personal opinion pieces by editorial page editor Gail Collins. She writes about everything from fictional women in American politics, i.e., the new TV show “Commander in Chief” (“The Gender Landscape: It’s Reigning Men”). “Faux […]

Harriet Miers, right, the trusted adviser and legal gofer he nominated this morning to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. What does that say about Miers’s judicial temperament, let alone his arrogance? Next question … So here it is: Did she really say (this comes courtesy of Salon.com’s David Frum is […]

We’ve been reading On the day he lost his innocence before the eyes of the world, Sergeant Javal Davis was sitting in the mess hall at Victory Base in Abu Ghraib prison, eating a plate of rice and tuna fish. It was April 28, 2004. Insurgents were still launching the occasional rocket-propelled grenade at their […]