Doing a bit of travel writing on my month in Mexico for RI Future. Put up my first entry today on the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 and the perils of the 1-party state, both in Mexico and Rhode Island.
Month: July 2013
In the comments of one of Other Scott's recent posts, the tired discussion about whether we're contractually obligated to agree with each other arose. We're not. Nor are we obligated.
The central question that emerges--and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by meerely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal--is.
The reviews for John Roberts's performance in striking down the Voting Rights Act keep coming! The decision cutting the heart out of the Voting Rights Act was also 5-to-4, but this time along more familiar lines, with Kennedy joining the court's most conservative four justices....
Good point by Jeff Toobin: The Supreme Court’s embrace of gay rights last week had an almost serene majesty. The obvious correctness of the Court’s judgment, its curt dismissal of.
In comments to the Pinochet post, somethingblue points us to the University of Denver honoring George W. Bush for "improving the human condition." Not surprisingly, some people at the university.
An amazing set of daguerreotypes and other early photographic images of the last American Revolution veterans.
The Wall Street Journal, openly pining for Augusto Pinochet: Mr. Obama also requested a review of U.S. aid to Egypt, but cutting that off now would be a mistake. Unpopular.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul.
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico for the month so I shouldn't care about the crazy weather in the United States so far this summer (the high today here was 75). But I can't help it. The weather is so insane in the U.S. Again. Climate change:...
Typical that a song as bad as the Star-Spangled Banner would have a neo-Confederate history. The section that favored the “Banner” was the South. By the 1920s when the newly.
Some very entertaining descriptions here: Keystone separates itself from the rest of the crap pack by augmenting the typical stale/sour flavor profile with notes of brown bananas and green armpits..