[Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo] epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. ... lapdog news media.

The failure affected the entire campus-some lights went dim, some heating ventilation equipment turned off. The Physical Plant needed to open up and access the high voltage equipment. In order to do that, all the electricity needed to be turned off twice.

We did our homework with these new storage enclosures. We have eliminated many of the common points of failure with storage subsystems and believe we have designed a product that will stand the test of time.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change.