A Progressive on the Prairie

Observations and Announcements

Bob Schwartz evidently found political cold turkey a tough bird. Bob is now at South Dakota Humanist, which was added to the blogroll earlier this week. Love the new name, Bob.

I’m not going to do much, if anything, on the Sotomayor nomination other than to observe she’s been confirmed by the […]

Achievement Awards

Blog headline of the week: World Realizes Internet Has Free Porn, Stops Caring About Playboy

Bookish Linkage

Ro, ro. A federal court in Russia ordered a local newspaper reporter to pay compensatory damages of $1,000 “to a writer who did not like a review of his book published in the newspaper.” The author […]

Bulletin Board

I contributed to an ObamaRama — a review of Obama’s first 100 days — at the newly redesigned Blogcritics Magazine. My piece appears in Part 2 but there’s no reason not to start with Part 1. And I kept my vow about the political — my contribution is on Obama and books.

But […]