Monday, July 20, 2009

Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback

The top five stories worth reading from the week in worth-reading stories

(A little late this week - I spent three days in a hammock reading Charles Olson and Michael Pollan beside a lake in New Hampshire.)

Is Obama drinking Friedman's Kool-Aid?

Rachel Maddow did a great story this week on The Family, a secretive Washington religious organization.

The current economic downturn has revived an old debate about the utility of economic downturns. Also, Alternet talks about how bad the economy will really get.

While deficit spending is needed to claw our way out of this recession, we need to keep our eye on debt, and start cutting back on wasteful spending.

More revelations this week of the reckless force Israel used against Palestinian civilians.

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