Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

Guilty, guilty, guilty

Here is the best writing on the Enron affair so far, from John Nichols and William Greider, both in The Nation.

Channel Surfing, The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press

DISPATCHES: A good start toward reform

A second Dispatches this week, from The Cranbury Press, on the need for public financing and the New Jersey clean elections pilot.

Channel Surfing, The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press

Missing the point

OK. This is perhaps the strangest of political lists — a Top 50 conservative rock songs selected by The National Review. While some of the music seems pretty obvious — Metallica “Don’t Tread on Me” — other songs seem to do nothing more than prove that a.) the magazine does not understand shades of gray (“Won’t Get Fooled Again” is about not being a follower, as is “Cult of Personality” — messages that remain apropos in the age of Dubya) or b.) the magazine lacks the ability to discern irony (“Sympathy for the Devil” as a paean to conservative values?????).

Overall one of the most bizarre lists I’ve come across.

Channel Surfing, The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press