catching up, May 3, 2010

5-3-2010--To the wide array of programs offered by evangelical megachurches like Westside, the group adds what Ms. Renaud says is something long overdue. While churches have addressed pornography use among the men in their congregations and among the clergy, a group for women who say they are addicted to pornography is new territory, she said. –NYT [or they can work for the SEC or GOP]
5-3-2010—[Warren Buffet’s long time partner] placed the lame on lax or dysfunctional government regulations WSJ C1 [d’oh]
5-1/2-20100--...as the oil approached the shore this week Mr. Crozier was rethinking his position [that industry had embraced environmental protection in recent years]. WSJ A5 [d’oh...]
--5-2-2010—Bloomberg names ex-mayor of Indianapolis ... to No. 2 post—NYT A13 [hoosier bails out NYC]
4-30-2010—US report on Afghan war finds few gains in 6 months—NYT A16 [d’oh...]
--NYRB, May 13, 2010—And one more thing: Greece has a long history of default—in fact, the nation has been in arrears on its debt for half its modern history. P.11
--IBID—If politicians were painters, with FDR as Titian and Churchill has Rubens ...Bill Clinton might aspire to to heights of Salvador Dali (and believe himself complimented bythe comparison). P. 21
IBID—The flight of Iraquis since the 2003 invasion ranks as the largest human displacement in the Middle Est since 1948. P. 26
NYRB, April 8, 2010--...the Mediocre University at New York City the kind of place where people paid vast sums so their spawn could take hard drugs in suitable company, draw from life on their laptops, do radical things with viedo cameras and caulk...—p.16
--IBID. ..television preferences ... are now the best predictor of a voter’s political preferences. P. 20
--IBID. We—the left, academics, teachers—have abandoned politics to those for whom actual political power is far more interesting than its metaphorical implications. P. 27
--...the Irish and Germans continued to be social outsiders until the last years of the nineteenth century when a new wave of immigrants, originating in Italy and Eastern Europe, arrived to raise anxieties about the purity of the American. Having settled in, and looking more American than the newcomers, the Germans and the Irish became, Painter writes, “the second enlargement of American whiteness to become constituent parts of the American. P. 74