Then a cartoon is worth a million. Today’s cartoon by Dan Wasserman in The Boston Globe is worth checking out.
Nothing new on television news
Watching “Larry King Live” on the crisis at the Israel-Lebanon border and something strikes me: Guests include former Jean Kirkpatrick, an ambassador and national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, who served as a negotiator in the Middle East for Bill Clinton, Zbigniew Brezinski, national security advisor to Jimmy Carter — a group associated with the handful of successes in the Middle East, but also associated with a trajectory of failure. Essentially, what the King lineup shows is the inability of the mainstream media to bring new voices to bear on the region and, perhaps more importantly, the inability (or unwillingness?) to bring creative voices from the region into the discussion.
Just a thought.
Insight on Israel and Lebanon
Josh Marshall offers an insightful approach to the Israel-Lebanan conflict that cuts past blame and puts the needs of the people of the region first.
Gadflies in the blogosphere
A new local blog from some angry and unnamed residents. Poses some interesting questions about what is happening in South Brunswick. I’ll reserve my judgment about Take Back Our Town‘s analysis until I read more. I pass it along, though, for those who might be interested.
Poetry in South Brunswick
I’m in the process of completing a poetry program that will take place during the fall at South Brunswick Library, a series of readings featuring some well-regarded regional and national poets. They will take place at 2 p.m.
Here’s the schedule for the first leg:
- Sept. 10 — Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Oct. 15 — Emanuel DiPasquale, Sander Zulauf and Frank Finale, editors of “The Poets of New Jersey”
- Nov. 19 — Alicia Ostriker and Eliot Katz
- Dec. 17 — The Poets of South Brunswick, featuring yours truly and some other local writers.
More to follow.
Hank Kalet 