2nd Editor's Pick Pick (EPP)
El Bicho: I wanted to nominate Dave Nalle's article about the Pixar class action lawsuit.
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SPORTS: Matt Sussman's Pick of the week
(The Sports section debuted this week and with the the inclusion of earlier posts, Sussman found a gem.)
David Mazzotta wrote up NFL Picks of a Thoughtful Fool, Week 11
"Great, another NFL feature," I thought. But David shut me up quick, especially with his nostalgic trip back to an obscure video game. Mixed into that was a meaty statistical analysis of Week 11's NFL matchups and their spreads. Lastly, and most impressively, he picked Arizona — without their 10 spread points — to beat the Rams in St. Louis (which they did) and won $400 fictional dollars. I think this post would have been an editor's pick even if he simply said "Arizona will beat St. Louis" and followed it with a series of 562 ampersands.
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POLITICS: Natalie Davis Picks of the Week
Psychic Forensics: Autopsy of Karl Rove's Brain by pogblog, Nov. 14
Pogblog takes off the gloves to present a scathing condemnation of embattled White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove. One can't help but be moved - either to cheer or cry foul - after reading this sci-fi exploration of Rove's pathopsychology from the vantage point of a time far in the future.
The Fallacy of Balance Some liberals want Supreme Court justices to pass an abortion-rights litmus test. Certain conservatives want justices to protect traditional values. And many people believe those opposing views should be represented equally on the nation's highest court. In this compelling piece, Drew McKissick argues that the idea of an ideologically balanced court is not what the nation's founders intended.
Crime, Punishment, and Debts to Society: The Concept and Practice of Felon Disenfranchisement Laws by Bill Wallo, Nov. 17
This engrossing essay probes the practice of stripping voting rights from convicted felons. Wallo takes readers to ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and Reconstruction-era and present-day America to question the basic fairness of voter disenfranchisement. The article is endlessly fascinating - and many will find it persuasive.
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CULTURE: Lisa Hoover's picks of the week
People Love Their Cars by ProgressiveDepot, Nov. 14
ProgressiveDepot addresses price gouging, the oil companies and why we shouldn’t love our cars to the exception of any other form of transportation.
Bringing New Hope to HIV Sufferers by Ayu, Nov. 15
Ayu writes about an HIV infected man who appears to have been spontaneously cured. The jury is still out on what exactly is going on but if Andrew Stimpson turns out to hold the clues to an effective vaccine, that would certainly be good news for millions of people.
Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
I may have missed something in transfering between many mailboxes and getting used to my new non-Bc editor's office.
Let me know 'K?
Thank you.
2 - LegendaryMonkey
One did get missed... e-mailed! :)
3 - GoHah
For the record: I understand that my Editor's Pick Picks comments needed to be edited--I'm longwinded and cuss like longshoreman--but without the needed context, the "emotional bloodbath" makes little sense, connoting much childhood wailing and gnashing of teeth where there was none. Which would be no big deal, except that Mom just called, cussing like a longshoreman . . .
4 - zombyboy
Thank you. Thankyouverymuch.
5 - Temple Stark
GoHah, not worried about the cussing and I'll see what I can do to add back in the context no one else would have noticed was missing :-)
Give me a few.
And yeah, it was its own post :-)
6 - GoHah
Temple--thank you for reacting to my overreacting, and for the fine-tuning.
7 - Don Baiocchi
Thank you! I'm honored. I knew my obsession with the Food Network would get me far, I just didn't know it would get me this far.
8 - Pat Cummings
Apologies are owed to the writers who should have been selected for Editor's Picks in Books this week! I'll be making my amends with a double-dose of picks for next week.
I promise.
9 - Temple Stark
Only do that Pat, if there are enough that meet high quality from Nov 19 to the 25.
10 - Pat Cummings
I wouldn't promise unless I thought I could make good on it.
11 - pogblog
I'm very grateful for the vivid notice.
It's always interesting "to see oursels as ithers see us." I wish the Far Future could see us as a kinder species. We could make a quantum leap to committed construction from benighted destruction. It would make my transcribings of info from Y3000 a lot less embarrassing. "Yes, well, yes we did torture people. Yes, we did spend money on weapons instead of education. Yes, we didn't have health care for all our people." It's the look of faint disgust (They are very polite) and incredulity on their faces that so crawls the skin.
Again, so many thanks.
12 - Megan
Thanks for picking my review Connie!!!
I'm honored that you enjoyed it.
-Megan of the Modern Pea Pod