Pharma Marketing News did a poll of its readers on who shoul dbe Obama's FDA Commissioner. Whistleblower (and Soft Skull author) Peter Rost was suggested. And oddly enough, he's leading!
Though perhaps not so odd, in that Obama's Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been one of Rost's biggest supporters.
Dang. This could get interesting.
Pharma Marketing News is doing a poll of its readers on who should be Obama's FDA Commissioner. Whistleblower (and Soft Skull author) Peter Rost was suggested. And oddly enough, he's leading! (Feel free to vote yourself...)
Though perhaps not so odd, in that Obama's Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been one of Rost's biggest supporters.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel released the following statement today [this is back in late 2004] at a press conference with members of the tri-partisan Rx Drug Coalition and Pfizer Vice President, Dr. Peter Rost debunking the myth that prescription drugs from abroad are unsafe. Dr. Rost is the first executive from a major drug company to come forward and speak out against the drug industry’s scare campaign. Dr. Rost and members of Congress will urge the U.S. Senate to take action this year on prescription drug market access legislation.
Dang. This could get interesting.
Pharma Marketing News is doing a poll of its readers on who should be Obama's FDA Commissioner. Whistleblower (and Soft Skull author) Peter Rost was suggested. And oddly enough, he's leading! (Feel free to vote yourself...)
Though perhaps not so odd, in that Obama's Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been one of Rost's biggest supporters.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel released the following statement today [this is back in late 2004] at a press conference with members of the tri-partisan Rx Drug Coalition and Pfizer Vice President, Dr. Peter Rost debunking the myth that prescription drugs from abroad are unsafe. Dr. Rost is the first executive from a major drug company to come forward and speak out against the drug industry’s scare campaign. Dr. Rost and members of Congress will urge the U.S. Senate to take action this year on prescription drug market access legislation.
Dang. This could get interesting.
The CEO of Counterpoint LLC, which is the parent company of Soft Skull and Counterpoint Press, on the Kennedy assassination (Charlie Winton's his name, and he edited Legacy of Secrecy for us):
Even so often a blog will mention one of our books, and, courtesy of the RSS feed I have set through Google or Technorati, I will find out about it and click through. Typically it is from one of the well-known bloggers, but sometimes it can be a personal blog, from MySpace, or LiveJournal.
Today, I found one, on LiveJournal, that was simply captivating. The book, Mercury Under My Tongue, gets only a brief mention. But the rest of the post, good God, it is pure alienated adolescence in all its pain and longing and suppressed rage, and joy.
And when I say that our books cross-over to teenagers, oh my word is she the proof of that. She is clearly a unique girl, and also so emblematic of our audience. I want to publish books for her.
Thrilling essay by Tim Wise at Racialicious aimed both at those to the left of Obama, and at those who might get complacent. The below doesn't substitute for reading the whole thing, but if you're not feeling it to click through, here's the plea bit:
For we who are white it means going back into our white spaces and challenging our brothers and sisters, parents, neighbors, colleagues and friends–and ourselves–on the racial biases that still too often permeate their and our lives, and making sure they know that the success of one man of color does not equate to the eradication of systemic racial inequity.So are we ready for the heavy lifting? This was, after all, merely the warmup exercise, somewhat akin to stretching before a really long run. Or perhaps it was the first lap, but either way, now the baton has been handed to you, to us. We must not, cannot, afford to drop it. There is too much at stake.
The worst thing that could happen now would be for us to go back to sleep; to allow the cool poise of Obama’s prose to lull us into slumber like the cool on the underside of the pillow. For in the light of day, when fully awake, it becomes impossible not to see the incompleteness of the task so far.
The British lit journal Five Dials asked eleven writers, including Suketu Mehta, Hari Kunzru, and J. Robert Lennon, to write the outcome of the election, from a future vantage point...Our own Lydia Millet had this to say:
WASHINGTON— Due to an epidemic that occurred in voting booths across the country—a sudden-onset fear of black men that's so common in America it has a statistical effect named after it—the margin of victory was smaller than many had predicted. This margin was reduced even further than polling had forecast by a media event, three days before the election, broadcasted exclusively by the Fox News Corporation and branded "The Healing of an American Family"—namely the small, discreet wedding of Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter to her unwilling yet nobly suffering boyfriend. Viewership was 110 million.Still, Barack Obama held on by the skin of his teeth, and now, as president elect, has the most extensive and paranoid Secret Service detail in history. Threats against his life roll in by the thousands, concentrated in the rural Southeast but trickling in, also, from other racist outposts across the country. The running joke among those who find the situation funny is that Joe Biden is the safest white man in the world.
Considerable euphoria on the coasts and other less-racist outposts followed the election, which has left liberals, minorities and other usually underrepresented groups feeling oddly vindicated and hopeful. John McCain, after delivering a cheerful concession speak that confused supporters and opponents alike with its puzzling allusions to "victory over the yellow man," is taking a well-deserved rest cure in one of his eight homes in Sedona, while Sarah Palin, who plans to resign the governorship in favor of work in the private sector, is busy signing sponsorship deals with a number of corporations, including a hockey face-guard manufacturer based in Duluth and the trendy Japanese maker of her wire-rimmed glasses.
Jonathan Evison, chronicler of Lulu, performs an ode to independent booksellers.
And yeah,I know, posting has been light. I'm twittering a lot these days, and you know, hitting refresh here and here too much.