Update: The President’s Budget for FY 2011 is available here (192 pages total). The total is $3.2 trillion. I’ve never typed or written that many zeros in my life. Overviews and introductions by the White House Office of Management and Budget are available here. Critiques are available everywhere, [...]
Anyone who keeps up with the artifact and art market or have seen at least one “Indiana Jones” movie, is familiar with the underground and sophisticated ring of curatorial thieves waiting for an opportunity (natural or man-made) to pounce on valuable artifacts for very wealthy clients. Oh, let me not forget - to feature [...]
President Obama’s appearance at the House Republican Conference retreat in Baltimore today was political PR at its best. Apparently, the White House insisted on bringing cameras. Good move. Obama has a talent for “playing the dozens” in a way that you’re slightly shamed into being your better self. Perhaps it’s that [...]
UPDATE: There will be a tribute to Howard Zinn, Monday, February 15 from 6 - 11 PM at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW) with Amy Goodman and other special guests; musical performance by Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock), David Zirin and other friends of Howard Zinn
HOWARD ZINN, historian [...]
Last week while watching the Hope for Haiti 2010 telethon, I happened to catch one of my favorite performers Sting with a smokin’ band behind him that included the Roots. During the instrumental riff, Sting and a guitar player from the band had this fierce thing going. Something familiar caught my ear. [...]
I’m behind on my President’s Weekly due to so many other things on my plate and of course the news and other distractions of the past week. I’m so focused on work (thankfully) and the “what next” of health care reform that I didn’t have time to fully address the meaning and impact of [...]
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is sponsoring a day-long symposium: STATE OF THE UNION: The Lessons in Leadership, Saturday January 30th. There’s a $60 registration fee which includes a ticket to see a performance of Synetic Theatre’s “Anthony and Cleopatra” at the Langsburgh Theatre. Or for $5 you get a day-pass to all [...]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure and opportunity to see White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and deputy social secretary Joe Reinstein at a meeting of NATCAP, the national society of government meeting professionals inside the National Archives building in downtown Washington. I have to give NATCAP credit, so far there has been no press [...]
Republican State Senator Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat occupied by Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy since 1962 (until his death last year) in a special election against state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Brown came away with 52%; Coakley 47%. Republicans gleeful; Democrats demoralized and begin to take their usual places in the [...]
I had to rip this one off from the front page of E-Notes in its entirety. He probably posted it after my little anxiety email I slipped in his mailbox yesterday evening. This analysis of news media “calls” on elections was conducted by Black Box Voting.org, the group run by Bev Harris based [...]
