Today, I play amateur historian. I’m not a pro, of course, though I did double major as an undergrad (history & pol sci). In this respect, I have a greater academic background in history than I do in international relations, which is sort of ironic considering I teach a seminar in IR at the Masters […]
Category: Dave Brockington
What the hell is it with Florida this month? This has been going around the past few days and I’m sure a not small number of LGM readers have seen a version of it. Long story short, the principa
As I’ve written about, universities in the UK have offered us a 1% pay increase, which they implemented in December, backdating to August. My union went on strike twice last term, once in Octobe
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama. That’s not hyperbole, that’s the headline from an article in yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times. The pearls of wisdom include such hits as “I’m past impeachment,” Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. “It’s time to arrest and hang him high.” The argument Mr. Black makes is that […]
A couple days ago, a UKIP local councillor in cosmopolitan Henley-on-Thames, David Silvester, wrote to his local paper arguing that God is punishing Britain through a series of storms in late Decemb
I basically grew up in Seattle. However, I was born in the Bay Area, and didn’t move to Washington State until half way through the third grade. My original NFL allegiance was to the Oakland Rai
Now that I’ve returned alive (*) from my three-week multiple city jaunt through the United States, and emerged from a jet lag induced haze, I was planning on writing about something also depressing, albeit in a different way. However, as Rob discusses below, we have this. An equally fascinating and frustrating aspect of the gun issue is […]
Here you can find a growing archive of letters sent home to the UK (of Great Britain and Ireland) from the western front in 1914/15,detailing first hand accounts of the Christmas truce that occurred o
When the draw for the World Cup finals happened, there was much hilarious moaning in England. Since FIFA hates England, the English received the most difficult group imaginable. England FA chairman Gr
Can get tenured faculty sacked. Shorter University of Kansas: if you tweet or Facebook or Linkin or Flikr or Youtube anything that somebody powerful might disagree with, we can sack you. Or, put another way, we value the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment higher than any interpretation of the 1st. This new policy was […]
DB: The following was written by Ken McGlothlen over the course of the last couple of weeks. I’ve known Ken since my undergraduate days. We both attended the University of Washington, in Seattle
Relentless in bringing to light the problems with limited regulation of firearms, on Friday Mother Jones discussed the 194 children killed by guns since Newton. They break it down as 103 homicides, 84