Posted on October 9 at 12:54 p.m.

I meant to refer to 2006, not last year--as Heidi Klum likes to say, one year you're in, the next year you're out.

On Four Reasons to Apply for the Arts Fund Individual Artist Award

Posted on October 9 at 12:49 p.m.

Ethan Turpin is an interesting artist who may one day win an IAA, but last year he was an Honorable Mention to yours truly, Philip Koplin.

On Four Reasons to Apply for the Arts Fund Individual Artist Award

Posted on May 2 at 11:09 a.m.

If America's democracy is so wonderful and so committed to personal freedom, how did we end up with a regime committed to secret indefinite detention and torture?

On economics, the notion that the mortgage crisis is beyond understanding but can be "handled by the market" is delusional nonsense.

His overall claims are so bizarrely out of touch with the actual world that only someone with a stunning degree of ideological blindness could make them.

And I guess he doesn't realize how wonderfully stupid this is: "By exceptional I don’t necessarily mean better... In the final chapter, ... we also think it’s exceptional in being better."

On Red, White, and Better

Posted on May 1 at 11:29 p.m.

1. Rep. Capps may have made passing reference to the fact that Obama carried her district, but it’s misleading to pretend that this is the actual reason for her support, which boils down to the following: “Walter once said that ‘we are strongest as people when we are directed by that which unites us, rather than giving into the fears, suspicions, innuendos and paranoias that divide.’ For years I have been waiting for a President that speaks to that vision. I believe Barack Obama may very well be that rare leader.”
2. The notion that Clinton would be the nominee if the Dems used the same rules as the GOP is a ridiculous non sequitar.
3. "Once a procedure has been established, changing it midstream to the benefit of one candidate over the other can only undermine the integrity of that process and the integrity of the party." Um, it's Clinton who wants to change the rules she previously agreed to about whether to count Michigan and Florida.
4. Speaking in "statistical terms" of a "virtual tie" overlooks the fact that we aren't talking about sampling probable votes according to some model, but counting actual votes. In actual votes, the person with at least one more than the other wins. The only way Clinton becomes that person is to get a huge majority of superdelegates. In fact, she is nowhere near close to that, and Obama has been the one gaining ground.
5. If someone on the LA Lakers decided that the best way to practice for their next playoff round was to beat up on Kobe as much as possible because that would make him "all the more prepared" for the real games ahead, he'd been tossed out on his ear for sabotaging the team's chances.
6. The major capacity that Clinton has shown is her willingness to exploit for her own sense of entitlement the precise sorts of " fears, suspicions, innuendos and paranoias" that Rep. Capps wishes to see overcome and is why she is supporting Obama.

On Capps Endorses Obama