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News of the long slow lingering death of NYC's Democratic machine

By artappraiser on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 9:42pm |

Just a news compilation thread for my own reference, perhaps to update from time to time

First news item:

Councilman, Convicted of Fraud, Vacates Seat
By Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, July 26/27, 2012

It appears that the TPMCafe site has been taken down from the web?

By artappraiser on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 3:56am |

Trying to go to its url (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) now automatically redirects you to the the Talking Points Memo home page (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/)

Did anyone notice a public announcement that this was going to happen? Just curious.

Three Scenes Inspired By The Gingrich Campaign

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 2:07pm |

By Calvin Trillin for "Shouts and Murmurs" in the February 27 issue of The New Yorker

Trillin's three scenes are great fun, but I'm really posting this because I adore the illustration for the article and don't know where else to put it:

Mitt's image morphing?

By artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 9:09pm |

Warning: superficial post!

I've commented in the past that as a personality, Mitt reminded me a lot of the Arrow Shirt Guy of advertising days of yore. Who was just a cypher of all-American clean-cut tall healthy white maleness and quiet strength.

But watching his speech tonight when he was in a jovial mood, I began to see much more of this guy, especially in the facial expressions:

Alastair Cooke explains LBJ to the UK, Nov. 25, 1963,

By artappraiser on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 8:01pm |

in "The 36th President," published in The Guardian.

Alastair Cooke was The Guardian's "America correspondent" at the time of the assassination. It's amazing to me how much he knew and understood about LBJ's politics at the time, and how he could express it in such a short piece.

Don't miss the graph where he says:

"A Jewish Writer in America" by Saul Bellow

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 3:33pm |

The following, the second part of a two-part series, is excerpted from a talk originally given by Saul Bellow in 1988 and now published here for the first time. A footnote has been added by the editors.

located @

New York Review of Books for the November 10, 2011 issue.

Genghis: site warnings appearing (Update 11:24am: fixed)

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:45am |

Update 11:24am: readers nevermind: he fixed it; see his comment below.

Just in case you don't see it, too, here are copies of some stuff that is appearing appeared on the site, of the type which also appeared a day or two before the last trouble with signing in. The following appeared at the top of the page in a pink box when I edited my last comment:

Protect them from evil: major government fail

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:47pm |

The horrors of the story out of Philadelphia, of the gang who imprisoned and tortured developmentally disabled people in dungeons in order to collect their SSI checks, just keep coming and coming. It could encompass as many as 50 victims over 5 states, and past deaths.

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