I largely agree with everything that Paul has written, and the comments thread off of that one is excellent. Having had my daughter for the last three days, I’ve not had an opportunity to do much of, well, anything beyond pay her attention and acquiesce to her three-year old demands, so now that I have […]
Month: December 2009
Daniel Heller-Roazen’s The Enemy of All studies the genealogy of the term “pirate,” and the impact that the term has had on the development of Western international law and the laws
I have a review of Vincent O’Hara’s Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.
Shorter President Max Baucus: public options are for my mistresses, not for people without decent health insurance. Seems like a good time to return to the archives for this classic. And to wish again that, if we couldn’t have a parliamentary system, we could have at least had unicameralism.
What’s amazing isn’t so much that he couldn’t get even two dozen people to attend screenings at America’s most populous urban centers, but that even 17 people would pay 20 buck
So I find this interesting (no link, but you can find state by state data here): Setting aside the utterly unscientific nature of such polls, I’m mildly surprised by the Ducks’ nationwide
Wow. How humiliating for him. Then again, real Americans don’t live in big cities, so it’s hard to count this as a loss for him. I’m sure he killed in Batavia.
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance, explor
Some very preliminary thoughts: Great draw for both the U.S. and England. Algeria is clearly the weakest African team and Slovenia might be the softest Euro side. Right now it looks like it would be a
Obviously, in a more rational world his testimony would have ended his chances for re-appointment. But it says even more that in light of Alan Greenspan’s straight-faced assertions that we needed upper-class tax cuts because we were in danger of spending down the surplus too quickly anybody takes the policy recommendations of libertarian Fed chairmen […]
Miriam.
Hey. HEY! The only thing that’s important is that UK made the List of Top Public Schools. It doesn’t matter where we are on that list. And yes, such rankings are nonsense. Also, while I ha