Author Archive for: emptywheel
About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Reid on Lieberman
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelWithout prompting, Reid offered this explanation on Lieberman at the Progressive Media Summit:
What were we going to do with Joe Lieberman? I know how to count votes. That’s been my occupation since 1998. One vote in the Senate means a lot. I was upset with some of the things he said in the campaign.
Trash Talk: Phred's Hubcap for a Steal!!
/in Trash Talk/by emptywheelPhred skipped town and forgot to take the hubcap she won last week, so you all have a chance to winning it off of her while she’s not looking. (She did, however, leave her picks behind–going with the home teams–so you still all have her picks, if not her trash, to contend with.)
Before we get to the Conference Championship games, though, I have to send my apologies to masaccio for stealing