Howard Zinn and Leftover Stuff from Friday

Hello there and let's get started with the Howard Zinn lecture I featured on the program this morning. A progressive and activist for peace and social justice. Mr. Zinn was an Historian and Professor Emeritus whose 1980 published work "A People's History of the United States" helped change the way people viewed U.S. history. He passed away last Wednesday at the age of 87 and if the msm* was not so busy focusing on the sex lives and drug consumption habits of people no one n their right mind woud ccare about we all might have heard more about this very good and decent human. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_three_holy_wars

*I assume if you come here you know msm means mainstrean media but what the hey! It's no big deal to post one more reminder.

Here's his obit from the NYT's http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/28zinn.html?em

Taking the wayback machine to last Friday, here are some of the stories covered on NM&P starting with Obama's criticism of the Supremes and Glennzilla's take: http://digg.com/d31H3BX

Here's some reich wing opinions on the matter http://mediamatters.org/research/201001280013?newsref=www.eschatonblog.com

Here's the NYT's reportage of the story http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/politics/29scotus.html?hp

Here's a coal company stealing from Dr. Suess's legacy to sell and spin (get your barf bag) http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/28/%e2%80%98green-coal%e2%80%99-company-loraxag-dirties-dr-seuss-legacy/

Sally fucking Quinn and all you need to know about the Washington msm Villagers http://mediamatters.org/columns/201001280053

The best sourced and most useful piece I've read on Climate Science this year - check out all the links inside the link and you can count yourself well-informed http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/04/the-year-in-climate-science-scientists/

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