Alarming News

Jack Avram is here

Karol — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:08:36 +0000

February 12, 2013. 7lb, 4oz.

Where do we go now?

Karol — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:27:45 +0000

While a lot of people are talking long term strategies to stop school shootings, I have some *right now* ideas I learned from being Jewish, in my my latest piece for WNYC’s A Free Country.

Turn your pages to 2004

Karol — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:44:26 +0000

I try to offer a little historical perspective, on the post-election doom-saying and celebration, by taking us back, all the way back, to 2004 and talk of a permanent GOP majority, in my latest piece for WNYC’s It’s A Free Country.

Willing to be pleasantly surprised

Karol — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:43:59 +0000

I want to be wrong. I would feel very happy getting this election wrong. But this is the way I think the map breaks tonight (and I think WI and IA are longshots for Mitt too). I think it will be close overall but that Obama takes it in the end.

FYI

Karol — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:42:59 +0000

In case anyone is wondering how NY’s “vote anywhere” thing works today:

You fill out your ballot in a privacy booth like everyone else. With pen. Because it’s still like 1970 in NYC. (And as I explained to my shocked sister-in-law today–these are our new machines! This is our updated way of voting!)

Then put you put your ballot in an envelope which doubles as an affidavit. That is, your ballot is ensconced inside but the information you fill out is on the outside, able to be read by anyone. You fill out a bunch of information like where you live and why you can’t vote there (displaced voters tick a box that says their information can’t be found in the voter rolls).

And in two different places on the affidavit you’re asked your party identification. I know there are Republican poll workers but I didn’t see any at my polling location and I don’t have a lot of hope for an envelope identifying the ballot within as filled out by a member of the Republican party making it through a long and tedious journey to be counted. Maybe I’m cynical. And yes, I realize it’s NY so who the hell cares anyway.

The list

Karol — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:24:20 +0000

This is the most all-encompassing list I’ve seen of all the reasons not to vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday.

A marathon debacle

Karol — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:09:12 +0000

My latest for WNYC’s A Free Country looks at Mayor Bloomberg’s failed leadership in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

But, I mean, choose Mitt in the end you dodos.

Karol — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:14:47 +0000

This might be the most even-keeled column I’ve ever written: Undecided voters don’t deserve the abuse they’ve been getting.

America today

Karol — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:10:09 +0000

State Department: No video protest at the Benghazi consulate:

Prior to the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi late in the evening on Sept. 11, there was no protest outside the compound, a senior State Department official confirmed today, contradicting initial administration statements suggesting that the attack was an opportunistic reaction to unrest caused by an anti-Islam video.

THERE WAS NO VIDEO PROTEST before they murdered our ambassador.

Via Brain Terminal.

Don’t save Big Bird

Karol — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:51:49 +0000

National Review’s “The Homefront” blog picks up a picture of my daughter and the most obvious political point about Sesame Street.