[MCM] Two tributes to John Gideon

From Bo Lipari: For John Posted on April 28th, 2009 by bolipari http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2009/04/28/for-john/ This morning I woke to the impossible news that my friend John Gideon was gone. Somehow, a big, vibrant man I had seen just a few weeks ago, would no longer be there; a fisherman

[MCM] John R. MacArthur tells us why You Can't Be President

This is the video of a talk Rick gave at the McNally Jackson Bookstore a few months ago. Although the posting of the video is surely tardy, the talk, and the book that is its subject (You Can't Be President), are as fresh as breaking news:

[MCM] A solemn tapdance by the NYTimes' Public Editor

NYT Public Editor Dances Around 'Brutal Truth' of Torture http://mediabloodhound.typepad.com/weblog/2009/04/from-article-17-of-the-geneva-conventionno-physical-or-mental-torture-nor-any-other-form---of-coercion-may-be-inflicted-on.html Clark Hoyt's New York Times public editor column on Monday,