SRB's Daily Show: catch up

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

catch up

10-27-09—[the new US Embassy in Iraq] is a monument to shoddy work and incompetent oversight.—NYT A8
--“We see a situation where [college] athletics expenditures are rising three or four times gaster than expenditures in academic programs..”—NYT B15
--An OECD report found that just 57% of children in the US live with both parents, among the lowest percentages of the world’s richest nations.—WSJ B8
--[In Georgia, a school district policy of prohibiting school sponsored Biblical citations] has produced an unexpected result: more biblical verses at football games, displayed not by cheerleaders, but by fans sitting in the stands.—NYT A12
10-25-09--A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publily talked about sex.—SBT A8

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About Bachmann

Steve Bachmann, AB (Harvard), MFA (UNO), JD (Harvard), has represented many organizations working for social change as an attorney. He is also co-founder of The New Orleans Art Review.

He has written scores of law review articles and several books over the years, including THE U.S. CONSTITUTION FOR BEGINNERS (Writers & Readers Press, 1987), illustrated by Pulitzer prize winner Joel Pett; PREACH LIBERTY (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990); NONPROFIT LITIGATION (John Wiley & Sons, 1992); LAWYERS, LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE, (2001) published in conjunction with the ACORN Cultural Trust and Unlimited Publishing LLC; and three books of art criticism, titled SIMULATING SEX: AESTHETIC REPRESENTATIONS OF EROTIC ACTIVITY (2002) and BEYOND NOLA: NEW ORLEANS REVIEWS OF ART (with Terrington Calas, 2002), both published in conjunction with The New Orleans Art Review, and Unlimited Publishing LLC. EXTREME PROUST is his latest book.