– Television news anchor Walter Cronkite died on Friday. He was well before this writer’s time, so I will let Robert Feder and John Dickerson speak for his legacy in American journalism. Robert McNamara also passed away earlier last week.
– An quick and interesting survey of the party affiliations of top Cornell administrators and notable faculty. Much more Republican/Independent than one would suspect. As Bilmes points out, the biggest surprises are Skorton (Democrat) and Maas (Republican).
– One year ago, Fox News journalist and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow lost hist battle with cancer. His colleagues recently reflected on his life.
– This has nothing to do with Cornell, politics, conservatism, or any of the other topics normally discussed on this website, but I’m confused to the point of intrigue with this human carpet guy.
– Along the same lines of Professor Maas and out-of-the-norm articles, here is a piece Oliver wrote on his 72-hour encounter with sleep deprivation.
– In case you missed the buffoonery that was the Franken-Sotomayor questioning, here’s a brief excerpt where they went on into lengths about their favorite TV-shows. So this is the scrutiny our SC Justices undergo nowadays? The love affair needs to end.
