12th Jan 2009
Links for today
- Seattle will tear down the Viaduct and replace it with a tunnel. Boo.
- Six-month exposure photography. Really neat stuff. (via)
- A Formal Debate About George W. Bush With Some Unusual Players – Metafilter user WCityMike helpfully summarizes a December debate conducted by NPR on whether “Bush 43 is the worst president of the last 50 years”. For: Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate and Sir Simon Jenkins of the Guardian. Against: Karl Rove (!) and William Kristol (!).
- Not The Night Of The Long Knives – Obsidian Wings with a great addition to the conversation of whether Bush, Cheney et. al. should be tried for war crimes.
- A Couple in Chicago – excerpt of a 1996 interview with Barack and Michelle Obama. A neat look at their life when it was a bit quieter.
- American Girl – Ta-Nehisi Coates profiles Michelle Obama for The Atlantic.
- Then and Now: the nation Barack Obama inherits – discussion of how America has changed in the last 8 years, with a very neat graphic.
- How to Get Out of Iraq – Marc Lynch on why, and how, Obama should handle the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Good consideration of the challenges and benefits the US is facing in this transition.
- Bonus quote of the day: “I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting.” – Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher
I really like “A Couple in Chicago”, and the quote from Joe the Plumber.