New Digs
Whether forced out, moving on, or building anew, we all need a roof over our heads.
Knol
Digging Up Shakespeare’s Stolen Theater: A players’ company of thieves.
Hurricane Ike Resources
Texas: Galveston-Houston Area Zip Code Evacuation Information: Follow the tracks of those misplaced by the storms and flooding.
Detroit News
Foreclosures Won’t Hinder Voters: Voter registration shenanigans? It’s not true that you can’t vote if your home is foreclosed.
Washington Post
Arts Agency Chairman is Moving On: Dana Goia rebuilt the troubled NEA, appeasing conservatives with more traditional programs.
New York Magazine
On June 30, 2009, Buy an Apartment: Vitriolic investor Jim Cramer predicts to the day when housing will turn around, bringing the economy up with it.
Inadequacies
Words, and pictures, are never enough, but sometimes they’re all we have. Same goes for offshore oil and peer influences.
Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are
New York Times, Patricia Cohen
Maurice Sendak discusses his perceived inadequacies as an artist. This, from the man who wrote and designed Where the Wild Things Are, one of the most wildly popular illustrated books of all time.
saber rattling
On the seventh anniversary of September 11, threats abound between nations, in nature, and the world of finance.
Palin’s Dangerous Saber Rattling
The Huffington Post
Ilan Goldenburg, policy director of the National Security Network, explains why it was imprudent of Sarah Palin to advocate invasion of Russia by the United States, given a history of painstaking diplomacy between the two countries. Her statements were made during an interview with Charles Gibson for ABC News.
Putin Warns West Against Starting Arms Race
International Herald Tribune
Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns Western nations that setting up a missile defense in Europe may provoke an unnecessary arms race, reserving his harshest criticism for the US and Britain.
Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
