Elliott Smith. Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of his death, and to mark the occasion, SPIN released an article originally published in December 2004 marking the last few years of his life. I saw him live back in the day two or three times (as...
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
Even though I'm a bit addled from waking each morning around 0400 to do the daily radio spots this week, I'm not addled enough to dramatically shift my viewpoint on.
Shorter Erik Erikson: "Although most every legitimate poll on the planet shows us getting hammered over this shutdown thing, and everybody hates us, if we squint hard enough and focus.
Like many people, I'm struggling to find evidence of rationality in the suicide caucus strategy and end game here. I get that they're willing to destroy tacit norms of legislative behavior, and even ignore normative assumptions about the meaning of elections and the legislative process...
So states Arsenal's Jack Wilshere in his sober reflection on who ought to qualify for the English national soccer football team. I should ask him if ten years counts for.
for Erik's new "stupid and insensitive" Republican of the day competition. I've got to go with a thoroughbred here. Old school. A real pro. A player with veteran moxie, plays.
Still aren't good. As though all the conditions faced by Democrats heading into November 2014 aren't cause for enough pessimism, including an electorate composition that favors Republicans given reduced turnout in mid-term elections, the marginal gains for Republicans derived from gerrymandering, and the penalty the...
The headline charitably assumes that there is any calculation involved here at all. Just yesterday I read a column or post somewhere (I thought it was Krugman, but I could.
Over at Monkey Cage, Andrew Gelman has an excellent piece on how post-publication peer-review works (and doesn't) in the blogosphere. One of the central themes (to me) is how complacency.
I'm surprised I missed this one. The story -- a Montana high school teacher, now 54, pleads guilty this past Monday to raping a 14 year old student at his high school in 2008. The prosecution seeks a 20-year prison sentence. Montana District Judge Todd Baugh,...
Unless you're our Republican asshole of the week, Rep. Scott Desjarlais (TN-4). If it merely seemed like Desjarlais is a nasty piece of work for, you know, sleeping with patients and.
In an article that I'd have thought I wrote if the byline hadn't told me otherwise, Allen Clifton at Forward Progressives is suitably amused by the legal strategy of the.