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Month: November 2013

Aztec Legitimacy

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On November 24, 2013

Interesting stuff from Xavier Marquez: Consider this passage Clendinnen quotes from the Florentine Codex (one of the main sources for pre-conquest Mexica thought and culture), coming after the speech with which.

Me and Paul

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On November 24, 2013
Keep the members of Willie Nelson's band in your thoughts today as they were in a serious weather related accident yesterday: One incident injured three members of singer Willie Nelson's band when their bus struck a pillar on Interstate 30 near Sulphur Springs, about 75...

Deal

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On November 23, 2013

And so this happened. Fact sheet here. Whatever the results, almost certainly better than a) nothing and b) bombing. And this, of course: Amazing what WH will do to distract.

Friction

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On November 23, 2013

My latest at the Diplomat evaluates some friction with offshore balancing: Last week, James Holmes described the ongoing difficulties involved with establishing forward U.S. bases in the Philippines. Despite the evident.

Ugh

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On November 23, 2013
Well, this was gruesome. Fortunately, I missed the entire game; by the time my plane landed, it was already into the third quarter. The problem of generating high expectations for a football team is that a two loss season (and the way the Ducks played...

Divestment

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On November 23, 2013

Todd Gitlin says the divestment movement against fossil fuel companies is the best tool we have to stop apocalyptic climate change. What makes me sad is that a) it probably.

McMurtry

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On November 23, 2013

If you were at the James McMurtry show last night in Fall River, Massachusetts, your least favorite intellectually dishonest blogger was there with you. I had forgotten how utterly compelling.

Responsibility

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On November 23, 2013
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and built a system of compensation for the families of the dead, the injured, and the...
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