The Seattle PI has a relatively unremarkable story on the economic fallout of the recent oil spill in The Aleutians today. Short-term influx of work, dollars, and filled hotel rooms, tempered by concerns about long-term damage, nothing too surprising. One passage did manage to cause my...
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Many of us political theory types have a particular interest in the facts and fictions of the founding moments of political societies, especially under extreme and unusual circumstances. Lost, ABC's stellar.
is on full display in this ridiculous piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. What is it with Classics professors? He starts off with a little whining about he was given a.
My question for Chris Vance: If King County was hell-bent on "stealing" this election, why didn't they do it sooner? Why did they reject a higher percentage of ballots than the rest of the state? If those 561 improperly rejected votes go to Gregoire by...
Bob Novak on the Capital Gang, discussing the Rumsfeld dust-up: Look, soldiers always complain. That's just what they do--it's a way of life for them.
Furthering my time-wasting in this here coffee shop, your easily distracted blogger has been leafing through a several-month old paper copy of The Chronicle of Higher Education left lying around. The.
One downside to my decision to replace my Clinton-era, Windows 98, 1/3 chance of crashing when opening a PDF laptop with a spiffy 2004 model is that I can now access the internet at many of the fine coffeeshops that serve as my rotating office....
When I blasted the Gregoire campaign a few weeks ago for their incompetence, I was primarily thinking of the media and message elements of her campaign. In this week's Stranger,.
A few random thoughts continuing what Scott said below. First, everyone should read this Neiwart post at Ornicus. I have little to add to it. Yes, some people used faulty and.
Seattle is one of three cities booked so far on the Slint reunion tour. I'm a bit of a sucker for reunion tours, especially for those bands that put out great stuff in the early 90's and then broke up. Even more especially those frequently credited...
Everyone's linking to this new blog started by Velleman, whose work I don't personally know, but who I know is a big name in philosophy. But the rest of the roster.
immediately below. The natural path for this to take is for us to start parsing Atrios' argument narrowly until we discover we all pretty much agree, and I'm not sure.