Despite my first post here, I don't plan to use this blog to engage in handwringing about past failings on my part. I'll comment on blogs and politics, like my co-bloggers, but I'll also blog a bit about my academic interests and concerns. On that...
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Elton Beard effectively sums up Tom Friedman's latest ad hoc theory. But what strikes me most about it is that he chooses an example that completely repudiates his thesis: Is Vladimir Putin's.
Ezra Klein has an interesting discussion about the latest journalistic thumbsucker about blogs. My favorite part of the article he cites, however, is its discussion of the blogosphere's "rock stars," which.
When it comes to pragmatic arguments about Nader, I basically don't see the point. That Gore would have won had Nader not run in 2000 is indisputable; trying to argue the point is like arguing with creationists. It's also true that this outcome was not...
Welcome to our blog. More on who we are and what we're up to soon, if we feel like it. I can't imagine how you found or why you're reading.
So here I am, the first syllable of the blogspot address...
Briscoe and McCoy on the weekend... UPDATE: This post was to test out link-creating. It seems to work fine. And because it's a pretty cool picture, on Law and Order, um, I mean, Memorial Day.
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