Steve Cohen A nice obituary for Steve Cohen (to add to the ones I linked to here) from Ionnek at Indymedia London (currently the lead item on the front page, which is gratifying), which includes a bibliography of some of his writings. Just good blogging My two favourite blog posts of the week: the F...

Pam catches a funny part of the whole explosion of the the Jammy folk: Roger quips: Actually that part of our business has been losing money from the beginning, so the people getting their quarterly checks from PJM were getting a form of stipend from us in the hopes that advertisers would start to c...

I have noticed a couple of new blogrolls I have joined. The great Madame Miaow has included me in her "Political punditry" section (nicely and bipartisanly sandwiched between Blairwatch and Boriswatch). Ben of Hungry Blues features my 2008 music post in his "around the web" feature, via his Tumblr p...

Just a couple of items today. [Updated 11.48 GMT] I'm putting together a long Bill Ayers post (or "Bill Ayres", as several commentators, including this one) seem to call him. In the meantime, read Katha Pollit, and follow her links here and here. H/t Jogo. Some good stuff via Matt, whose post on the...

There's no theme. We've got Old Labour, New Labour, Marx, miners, Latin music, Slovenian Lacanians, industrial noise merchants, anarchist Jewish Caribbean painters, New Cross and Sydenham, great TV. Among other things. Let's start with Martin Meenagh on Christopher Lasch on compassion, soundtracked ...

The following hilarious dialogue appeared in Gregg Easterbrook's ESPN.com column Tuesday Morning Quarterback on 26 September 2006 (I hope he doesn't mind me copying it here. It's fair to say this is comedy gold and deserves to be read instead of festering in the archives): Last week Jerry Falwell sa...

As discerning regulars will have noticed, I haven't had much surfing or blogging time lately, so I've been spending a pleasant post-prandial moment catching up a bit. (Lunch: hearty fare at a formica table in a Turkish greasy spoon with my loved one.) I bring back assorted things for you, in alphabe...

I haven't checked my Wikio rating since July, when I was the 160th most influential UK blogger, above Johan Hari. (Well, I guess he's not exactly a blogger is he.) Well, even though I feel my blogging has declined rather in the last month or two, I am now at no.87, one point ahead of my friend Neil ...

Mossa'ei Shabbath Qodesh Parshath No'ah 5769 Not only are the U. S. Elections for president, House of Representatives, and one third of the Senate just two days away, but just last Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister and Kadima Party Head Tzippy Livni was forced to announce that she was unable to form ...

Tonight’s planned hotel blogging will not be happening due to a much longer than intended commute time today. Americans, rest assured that your Border Protection officers are doing an excellent job of preventing Canadians from sneaking into your county without a thorough examination. Also, the...