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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
March 21, 2005
David Swanson, Hardest Working Man In Progressive Politics
Jeff Cohen, co-founder of FAIR, once dubbed David Swanson "the hardest working man in progressive politics."
And he was right. If you don't already, check out David's website and the nine columns he writes every day. (Except weekends, when he writes thirty-four.) One recent column I found particularly interesting is about an inspiring effort to fight back against predatory lending organized by ACORN.
Posted at March 21, 2005 02:34 PM | TrackBackWow. When does that guy eat/sleep?
Posted by: Elayne at March 21, 2005 03:02 PMAs far as can be determined, David Swanson has not slept since the late eighties.
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at March 21, 2005 03:12 PMHey, Jonathan, what's with the taste for the serious? I would have thought you'd go for this one:
http://www.davidswanson.org/columns/feeding.htm
which you can hear me reading next week, I think, on this bizarre radio show that I think you'd also like:
http://www.toeradio.org/
Also, Jeff's nuts. I'm unemployed and therefore not working at all, although I am trying to stop this stinking bankruptcy bill. Have you written about this? Here's a case where no one has come up with even a vaguely respectable excuse to support it, and yet it passed the Senate and is headed for a vote in the House that will be close at best. Plus 20 Dems sent Hastert a letter supporting it, which they no doubt CC'd to their paymasters. I'll have something on this on BlackCommentator.com on Thursday, and tomorrow on ThomHartmann.com
