Interesting stuff from Xavier Marquez: Consider this passage Clendinnen quotes from the Florentine Codex (one of the main sources for pre-conquest Mexica thought and culture), coming after the speech with which the Mexica greeted a newtlatoani (ruler; literally, the “Great Speaker”) and exhorted him to good behaviour:...
Keep the members of Willie Nelson's band in your thoughts today as they were in a serious weather related accident yesterday: One incident injured three members of singer Willie Nelson's.
And so this happened. Fact sheet here. Whatever the results, almost certainly better than a) nothing and b) bombing. And this, of course: Amazing what WH will do to distract.
My latest at the Diplomat evaluates some friction with offshore balancing: Last week, James Holmes described the ongoing difficulties involved with establishing forward U.S. bases in the Philippines. Despite the evident threat that the PLAN poses to Philippine territory in the South China Sea, the process of...
Well, this was gruesome. Fortunately, I missed the entire game; by the time my plane landed, it was already into the third quarter. The problem of generating high expectations for.
Todd Gitlin says the divestment movement against fossil fuel companies is the best tool we have to stop apocalyptic climate change. What makes me sad is that a) it probably.
If you were at the James McMurtry show last night in Fall River, Massachusetts, your least favorite intellectually dishonest blogger was there with you. I had forgotten how utterly compelling McMurtry could be live. He doesn't exactly scream charisma, either on his albums or in his...
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and.
I'm a little late to this wrap up, but both professional and personal obligations have occupied a great deal of my time over the past few weeks. The decks are.
While everyone is busy commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald, you morons the Mob, the CIA, Castro, the Freemasons, the Rothschilds, Marilyn Manson, and the Reverse Vampires, let's pause briefly to remember William Henry Harrison, our first presidential...
These two posts by Rick Perlstein make some excellent points about JFK. A few comments: The take on the Cuban Missle Crisis seems right to me. JFK's actions when the.
In case you still think John F. Kennedy was a good president, Dylan Matthews has a good run-down of how he was so overrated. It's the basic case--major foreign policy.