I’m not sure it would be possible to top today’s Alabama-Auburn game for a sports event that produces the combinaton of a sweeter victory for one set of fans and a more devastating loss for those on the other side of the outcome. Consider: Alabama-Auburn is the bitterest rivalry in college football. It makes Michigan-Ohio […]
Month: November 2013
Distasteful on several levels, “Black Friday” annually generates stories such as this one,[*] to the point where we need Black Friday Death Count, keeping track so you don’t have to
On November 30, 1999, protests began in Seattle, Washington against the World Trade Organization. The WTO meetings offered unions, environmentalists, and various social and economic justice activists
Some days I find the perfect stock photography to accompany a story, and I think to myself, “SEK, what you published at 9:56 a.m. is awesome. You cropped that perfectly and rule.” Then later that day, someone at a more heavily trafficked site finds the exact same perfect stock photography to accompany the exact same […]
A few days ago the Prime Minister published an op-ed in the Financial Times (paywall) on the back of Government musings about placing restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants to the UK once t
And they are mixed. “Too troll; didn’t read.”–anthrofred “This guy is paid to write? His prose has all the inflated volume of a wet fart, and twice the odor.”–stepped pyramid
Some suggestions for getting into the Thanksgiving spirit: Cut in line, and when someone complains, claim you were there first. Walk into someone’s yard, plant a flag in it, and yell “No flag no country!” repeatedly. Engage in wanton acts of criminal trespass, and respond to all questions by saying that you wouldn’t be there […]
One of the things I teach here at Plymouth is a MA seminar on methodology and research design (for the MA in International Relations, but that’s another story). I’m in my tenth year on it,
Welcome to the one day a year where the market is wrong about the ineluctable blandness of turkey! (Djw and the Lemieux family did in fact celebrate early with an appetizer of tagliatelle carbonara la
My belief that Thanksgiving is the most overrated food day of the year is well-documented so I won’t go over the arguments again here except to say that most everything on the traditional Thanksgiving table (or at least the traditional Thanksgiving table of the 1980s that frames my experience with its boxed stuffing and canned […]
Over at the Diplomat I do some pre-emptive pundit pruning: The momentum provided by the international nuclear agreement with Iran could reinvigorate the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts in
On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Erica Chenoweth about the practicality and effectiveness of non-violent protest: See especially implications for Occupy and other pr