If you're carrying a pager...

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July 17, 2008

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Onion Web Editor Baratunde Thurston was on stage for a long time tonight as filler for the tremendously late Howard Dean. Netroots was lucky to have him. He kept the crowd juiced, despite the fact that everyone was packing distracting gadgets. To paraphrase one of his jokes:

I know, I know, you're bloggers, so I can't ask you to turn your cell phone off. Just, please, turn them down. And, if you've got a pager...just leave. There's a very small bus outside to take you back to 1994. There are Vanilla Ice mix tapes on board.

Posted by Matthew Cordell at 9:54 PM

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September 25, 2008

Halfway to the Millennium Development Goals

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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.

This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.

But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.

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