Andrew Winston, 11.05.2009
Environmental Strategist, author of Green Recovery, co-author, Green to Gold
Stewart kept acting put out that addressing climate change won't be as simple as switching from buggies to cars. Steward always half jokes, but he's usually far more educated about what he's commenting on.
Maegan Carberry, 11.04.2009
Online at maegancarberry.com, co-host of Wilshire & Washington
The Obama administration, despite its hipster Flickr feed and weekly YouTube address, has presented a television-driven strategy, ceding a great deal of its street cred with the president's digital Millennial generation base.
Greg Mitchell, 11.03.2009
Author, "Why Obama Won"
Barack Obama ended up beating John McCain rather easily one year ago, but Stephen Colbert didn't stay in the race for the White House or Obama could have really been in trouble (for a minute or two, anyway).
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte, 11.02.2009
see their free online book at www.CoolTheEarth.US
How to confront future rising sea levels, droughts, intense heat waves, and other catastrophes stemming from continued global warming? We can try to mitigate, we can simply suffer, and we can try to adapt.
Bill Shireman, 10.30.2009
President and CEO of the Future 500
This past weekend, people in 181 countries came together for what may have been the "most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history." But you wouldn't have known it here in the U.S.
Gerald Sindell, 10.23.2009
Author of The Genius Machine
Asked what she might need to do in order to make Fox News a better fit with the Comedy Channel formula, Viacom's MTV networks CEO, Judy McGrath replied, "Absolutely nothing."
Wednesday Martin, 10.22.2009
Author
Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.
Bill Lichtenstein, 10.19.2009
President, Lichtenstein Creative Media
One has to wonder just what the editors at NPR will say if they are asked, "Is it OK to post a link to last night's Jon Stewart rant or to Frank Rich's recent editorial on my Facebook page?"
Marc Singer, 10.12.2009
Marc Singer writes TV, comedy, and webisodes including Newswitness News.
The point is we gotta stop constantly judging other people's sex lives. Unless they produce an amateur sex tape. Then it's fair game. Until then leave Letterman alone!
David Quigg, 10.09.2009
Ex-Reporter, Avid Photographer, and Blogger at davidquigg.com
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Aubrey Sarvis, 10.08.2009
Executive Director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
What gays and lesbians are looking for -- and will be marching for on Sunday -- is nothing special, and that's exactly the point. It's what every other American already has: equal treatment under the law
Charles Warner, 10.08.2009
Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School.
Today wing nuts can easily go on Google and create their own hate-filled echo chamber. Therefore, Google, the king of search, is unintentionally aiding in group polarization.
Chris Prevatt, 10.05.2009
Publisher of TheLiberalOC.com, an Orange County, CA based liberal political blog.
But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.
William Klein, 10.04.2009
Political strategist, writer, humorist in Washington, D.C.
In recent years, the punch lines have grown less crisp and the "rolling naturalism" has tumbled away from the satire that made Doonesbury the only comic strip I once made a point of reading.
Lisa Napoli, 09.25.2009
Author of "Three Good Things"
I'm glad I didn't go see the Dalai Lama today. I'm going to give the ticket to a friend, and he can tell me about the experience.
Karen Salmansohn, 09.25.2009
Ex-Senior VP ad creative director
There is no way to dupe your soul! Hence it's highly worthwhile to consistently choose morally right actions your soul can be proud of!
Bella DePaulo, 09.22.2009
Author of "Singled Out" and the "Living Single" blog
Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities.
How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.
Jon Chattman, 09.18.2009
Founder of thecheappop.com, pop culture/music writer, and author of "Sweet Stache"
I'd like to see a world in which Dick Clark can come out early in the morning with a shofar and usher in a "Rockin' Rosh Hashana Eve." Note to Ryan Seacrest: get ready to rock that yarmulke.
Karen Salmansohn, 09.16.2009
Ex-Senior VP ad creative director
I want you to write an email to yourself -- filled in great detail with a description of what healthful, happy love looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like, tastes like, quacks like.
Marty Kaplan, 09.24.2009
Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School
I don't know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times' failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama's failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar.
Terry Krepel, 09.20.2009
ConWebWatch.com founder and editor, Media Matters senior editor
But just because WND has found a new way to smear Obama doesn't mean it has abandoned the old ones. Its writers have continued to repeatedly liken Obama to Nazis.