who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field of clarity and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes back to life. but who is interested in crawling through undergrowth? who dares sail a tempest? who wants to come face to face with purity? that's why we're fenced off in this no man's land under permanent cross fire. three bomb holes. flag study. red. she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire, admires shoots balanced on turned earth, looks up, fulfilleds a leaves sigh, clouds, hands on her hips, her jaw falls open and a bomb drops down her throat. white. the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his

you know, you look at casablanca, you know? who is it about? it's about rick. what does he want?love with the girl. what's in his way? the nazis, you know? and it sounds very elementary, but if you can solve those problems in a book, you're well on your way to being able to make it into a film. >> hinojosa: a lot of people are enthralled with the creative process, and you've talked a lot about this-- the creative process, the fact that you spend a lot of time thinking, researching, and then sometimes you can sit down, like in motorcycle diaries, and you wrote it in three weeks. >> mm-hmm, right. >> hinojosa: that's pretty extraordinary. >> yeah, i think that it was the months of research beforehand, and... >> hinojosa: are you taking notes? >> taking notes, making mental notes, listening to music. i mean, i was immersed. you can ask my kids-- they were going crazy! >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) what would... what would happen with your kids? >> they were just like, "dad, are you still listening to the che music?" and all of that stuff. >> hinojosa: what were you listening to? >> well

gambling in casablanca. the fact is in the other capital, our political capital the battle between these two capitals, obama understands as we all do confidence is the point of the realm. it was that way and it has been that way throughout our history. roosevelt restores it establishing his legacy. kennedy sparks it for that grade robust period that he wants and reagan of course is a master, exuding confidence no matter what the underlying facts may be. and we have a moment in the interview. i will tell you this funny little story because it is something that has been mentioned on some of the coverage but i never got through it. in the interview, 45 or 46 minutes. this is basically obama in the chair and i'm in the couch. something happened that was a stroke of good luck, spat it is kind of the canned -- kindred to this one. is called politics and prose. it is our bookstore, our great bookstore and i'm there and i write in the basement blog,, innotech bay. i have an office behind my house for that kind of ne

it was kind of like that seen casablanca" where they casablanca"round up the usual suspects. we all kind of understood -- let the government know what they are working on and that they would accept more or less what you are doing. that all changed with the plame case, and it was a great of unintended consequence, the libby criminal case, and i know a lot of liberals and progressives do not like to think about the fact that the pressure put on the government to go after judy miller and send her to jail at an enormous cost to the american press corps, especially the washington press corps. it led to a breakdown of the entire system, this ambiguity that had adopted the system for 30 years disappeared almost overnight. and now the government of both republicans and democrats no longer feel any compulsion about subpoenaeiing report is, sending people to jail for talking to reporters. i think what we are now seen with the obama administration is that this really does cross party lines. at first people thought it was just george borscht, but in fact i think what it shows that anybod

he is a historian, so no surprise when he chose casablanca. michele bachmann initially said

about the post watergate era on, where they would conduct leakit was kind of like that scene in "casablanca" where they said there is gambling going on, and they said round up the usual suspects. important to go to the mat on this. we all kind of understood, as long as you let the government were doing. libby criminal case. a lot of liberals and progressives don't like to think about the fact that the pressure to jail had an enormous cost tolead to a breakdown of the that had been built into the system for 30 years disappeared almost are it is almost overnight. -- almost overnight. they no longer feel any compunction about subpoenaing reporters and sending people toi think what we are now seeing with the obama administration is that this really does cross anyone in power wants to try to cut down -- wants to control the power of information. they like to link themselves. -- to leak themselves. any other institution in washington. they leak to people who will write what they want to write. whenthey don't like is someone else leaked embarrassing damaging information to reporters who write thos

it was like the scene in "casablanca" where they say there's gambling going on, and the guys says yes, round up the usual suspects, and it kind of like everything died. no one thought it was important. we all kind of understood as long as you let the government now where you are working on it and give them a chance to talk to you they would accept, more or less, what you are doing. that all changed with the claim case. it was the great unintended consequence of the libby criminal case. i know a lot of liberals and progressives do not like to think about the fact that the pressure put on the government to go after judy miller and send her to jail had an enormous cost to the american press corps, especially the washington press corps. it led to a breakdown of the entire system -- this ambiguity that had been built into the system for 30 years disappeared almost overnight, and now the government, both republicans and democrats, no longer feel any compunction about a subpoenas for reporters, and prosecuting leaders, sending people to jail for talking to reporters. i think what we are now

it's kind of like that scene in casablanca where they say there's gambling going on, and the guy says yes, round up the usual suspects and the what kind of let everything guy. we all kind of understood well, as long as you let the government know what you're working on and give them a chance to at least talk to you that they would accept more or less what you were doing. that all changed with the plane case. it was the great unintended consequence of the libya criminal case. and i know a lot of liberals and progressives don't like to think about the fact that the pressure put on the government to go after judy miller and send her to jail had an enormous cost to the american press corps, especially the washington press corps. it led to a breakdown of the entire system, this ambiguity that been built into the system for 30 years disappeared almost overnight. and now the government, both republicans and democrats, no longer feel any compunction about subpoena reporters and prosecuting leakers, sending people to jail for talking to reporters. and i think that what we are now seeing with t

it was kind of like that scene in "casablanca" where they said there is gambling going on, and they said round up the usual suspects. nobody thought it was really important to go to the mat on this. we all kind of understood, as long as you let the government know what you are working on and give them a chance to at least talk to you, that they would accept more or less what you were doing. that all changed with the plame case, and it was the great unintended consequence of the libby criminal case. a lot of liberals and progressives don't like to think about the fact that the pressure put on the government's to go after judy miller and send her to jail had an enormous cost to the american press corps, especially the washington press corps. lead to a breakdown of the entire system, this ambiguity that had been built into the system for 30 years disappeared almost are it is almost overnight. -- almost overnight. they no longer feel any compunction about subpoenaing reporters and sending people to jail for talking to reporters. i think what we are now seeing with the obama administration is