The banality of evil, college football edition. On a related note, this is an excellent profile of Noam Chomsky.
Month: June 2012
Chris Wade wins the internets this fine Saturday. Or actually yesterday I guess but I just saw it.
Apropos of this story on the reintegration of B-52 into an air-sea framework, some recent research on the book reminded me of how differently the Soviets handled air-sea cooperation. As readers of R
Not surprisingly given the world’s collective decision to do nothing of value to fight climate change, the Rio+20 conference was a complete flop. Given the almost nonexistent media coverage, it seems everyone assumed this would be the outcome from the beginning.
Making rape jokes. And this: Leaving aside the irony of embracing rape as a means of punishing it, it points up how unsurprising widespread tolerance of the abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Ba
Yesterday, the Paraguayan Senate removed democratically-elected leftist president Fernando Lugo from power in what probably isn’t technically a coup since the Senate followed the Constitution. B
Who are these people that ousted Teresa Sullivan? The Post has a nice graphic. Every single member is a businessperson. Including Pat Robertson’s son. Not a single seat is reserved for someone with a different background. It’s quite clear–give a bunch of money to the governor, be rewarded with a seat on the University Board […]
Sad, but true.
Sandusky guilty on 45 counts. Sandusky’s behavior was monstrous and it’s good that he has been held accountable. But the accountability should not stop there. Sandusky was able to keep rap
You can’t actually vote for anyone other than me, but given that a lot of what I published over there also appeared over here, I thought it’d be wrong to disenfranchise you folks in this most important matter. Vote early and often, and via whatever means suits you best (comments, emails, those other services on […]
One need not think that Julian Assange is a heroic (or even particularly admirable) figure to agree that this Washington Post editorial (cited by Henry Farrell) is deeply perfidious: There is one pote
(Being the first of many of these I’ll be producing this summer.) With summer here and only some online teaching duties to attend to—meaning that I can put the 2½ hours I don’t have to