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video Expect this to turn into a much bigger story very quickly. Yesterday, a U.S. Attorney Jim Letten (a holdover from the Bush administration, according to Rachel Maddow) recused himself from the James O'Keefe case for "various relevant factors" that have yet to be disclosed in detail (though not for long one imagines!). O'Keefe, you probably know, was arrested last week with three others for allegedly tampering with the phones in U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. Last night he appeared on Hannity to declare the entire thing was a "‘a huge misunderstanding" though he refused to detail why. (more...)

the aughts The decade got off to such a nice start, didn’t it? At the stroke of midnight, as the nines turned into zeroes, our millennial fears were allayed by magnums of champagne and an army of Silicon Alley wizards. Cities around the globe twinkled with the light of an infinity of camera flashes. It was all so beautiful. Who could have guessed what catastrophe awaited, and how pivotal architecture and design would be to the coming decade’s grim narrative? Our world is fundamentally different than it was ten years ago. That change has been shocking, painful, and paradigm-shifting. In that time, architecture and design reframed our world in ways we could hardly have expected. Here are a few signal moments in that recent history. (more...)

On more than one occasion we have pondered what would happen if George W. Bush had made some of the same decisions that President Barack Obama has lately been making. The different ways that the two presidents are received by the media (and by extension, the public) has been particularly glaring during the recent White House Vs. Fox debacle, especially when it looked like the rest of the press corp had nothing to say about it. (Actually what I said was: Try to imagine the response had "Dick Cheney appeared on Meet The Press and not only declared war on MSNBC because he didn’t like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, but encouraged the rest of the press to cease treating it as a bona fide news operation.") (more...)