by Rob Stewart | Aug 7, 2012 | The Public Humanist
You should see my type closet. It’s pretty big. I have sporty type and strappy type. Workhorse type and formal type. As a graphic designer, I’m constantly trying on new typefaces, falling in and out of love with typefaces, and wondering if this typeface...
by Bill Lichtenstein | Aug 9, 2012 | The Public Humanist
For those who lived in Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the underground, free-form radio station WBCN-FM was the soundtrack of their lives. In the days before Facebook and Twitter, before the internet and GPS, and even before you could listen to rock music on...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Aug 22, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Following his recent trip to Israel key Mitt Romney advisor Dan Senor summed up the former Massachusetts’ governor’s position vis a vis Israel and Iranian nukes as follows “If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from...
by James Heflin | Aug 20, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Of the many blowhards masquerading as media figures, few are so frustrating in their pompousness, air of reason, and sheer insanity as Thomas Friedman. Glenn Greenwald today uses the occasion of a singularly spectacular Friedman statement to go after said insanity,...
by James Heflin | Aug 27, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The eight years of political misery that began with the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision might be but a harbinger of a rough November. From the New York Times: Twelve years after a too-close-to-call presidential contest imploded in a hail of Florida punch...