Tomorrow morning I am heading to Ohio as part of the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2006 program. I am one of a handful of bloggers who are traveling to swing districts to talk about how labor and political campaigns are working for victory this election season. I’ll be covering the Ohio senate and governor’s races, […]

For those of you wondering why I don’t use this blog as a forum for sex advice, my interview on Nerve.com should answer all lingering questions. Please do not link to this article.
UPDATE BY AUSTIN: SAY CHEESE!
UPDATE BY MATT:
Unnecessary dude. Lindsay Beyerstein took that picture (which apparently Joh doesn’t like). Here’s two I like […]

Starting today I will be a front page guest blogger at My Left Nutmeg. I was honored to accept the offer from the management (aka BranfordBoy) to take on a larger role in a community that I’ve been involved with as a diarist and commenter since early July. MLN is, in my humble opinion, the […]

Bill Moyers, a journalist’s journalist, once noted:
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
The Oklahoma born Texas raised Moyers, currently the president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, has spent more than five decades honing his craft. Moyers worked in both […]

I’ll be leaving to help run Students for a Free Tibet’s Free Tibet! Action Camp VIII in Dharamsala, India tonight. I’ll be out of the country until October 22nd and will have intermittent internet access, so my posting will be light.
SFT’s Action Camps are designed to train young leaders how to be better activists […]

The Baltimore Group is excited to announce a long-awaited addition to our team here at Emboldened. Today Antonino D’Ambrosio will start posting. His primary area of expertise is political popular culture, though he will be contributing in other areas as well.
Antonino D’Ambrosio, a writer, filmmaker, photographer and musician based in New York, is the author, […]

I’m on my way out the door to Students for a Free Tibet’s summer Board of Directors meeting. It’s in Connecticut this year (yay!) but I doubt I’ll have any time to be online and blog (boo!). The good news is that I’ll be heading back up to Meriden Monday morning and will be their […]

So I’m back from Germany. Free Tibet! Action Camp ended on Monday. Unfortunately for my vacation, other work stuff came up that required me to come back to NYC five days early. I’ve been up for about 24 hours and have to get an early start tomorrow.
The work situation that brought me home early […]

I’m on my way to JFK and a couple weeks in of work and traveling in Europe. I’ll be in Dusseldorf, Germany for the next twelve days to set up, run, and then break down Students for a Free Tibet’s seventh Free Tibet! Action Camp; This will be our second camp in Europe. Afterwards I’m […]

I live in a bubble. No, I’ll swiftly assuage your fears and tell you that my bubble has access to newspapers and I even read them every day. I also read books (both with and without pictures) and blogs (both with and without pictures). From a news standpoint, my bubble is rather cutting edge. But […]