Tag: links
member name: Stephen Frug
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August 14, 2007 11:58 PM EDT --
From tomorrow's NY Times:
The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday. . . .
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September 25, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
As a student of Twentieth Century history, I know the story of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School very well, of course -- I've even taught it to my history classes including, . . .
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September 25, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
As a student of Twentieth Century history, I know the story of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School very well, of course -- I've even taught it to my history classes including, . . .
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October 12, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
Is the dancer going clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Make sure to look long enough to get the motion to flip. For me, the default is powerfully counter-clockwise -- that's what I see first, and if . . .
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May 12, 2007 04:56 PM EDT --
• Since I've written a few times on the Codex Seraphinianus, I certainly should mention the excellent essay on the Codex in the most recent issue of The Believer. (via)
• Hey, my high . . .
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June 17, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
• Brad DeLong proposes a heirarchy of honest conservatives; then his commentator John Emerson dissents. (Via Andrew Sullivan, Honest Conservative Class of 2004)
• Martha Nussbaum argues against . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
• Scott Horton on why you should be worried about a US war on Iran. This would not only be grossly immoral (which it would), but would also be possibly the stupidest thing the US has ever done; but . . .
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July 17, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
1. Politics
• Sara Robinson (the same one who posts at Orcinus?) connects the dots from Watergate to Bush's many impeachable crimes in a marvelous essay, "Rehab Nation". Here's . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
Recent things read, watched or heard, and recommended:
Politics
• Digby, guest-blogging chez Rick Perlstein, reminds us of the racism that saturated the multiple responses to Katrina. (Update: . . .
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May 20, 2007 01:07 AM EDT --
Diversions from what? Oh, you know, this whole thing (more here). Not to mention this (more here and here). And this. And, y'know, everything else.
Okay, on with the diversions:
• Just the . . .
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June 20, 2007 01:26 AM EDT --
A few years ago a very old family friend (a law professor, as most of my family's very old family friends are) asked me to name one (political) blog she should read. I hemmed and hawed, and talked . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Someone I'm close to (SCT) recently forwarded me a letter from a friend of his (FH) whom I've never met. SCT and FH were having an email dialogue about their respective worldviews, and FH brought . . .
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August 03, 2007 02:13 PM EDT --
Another round-up of recent (or not) things to read. This time we have (for no particular reason) a lot of religion-related links. So it goes.
1. Religion
• "I do not want the messiah": . . .
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August 07, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
SF writer Michael Bishop was one of those who lost family in the Virginia Tech massacre just under four months ago: his son, Jamie Bishop, was among the 32 innocents (to use Bishop's word) murdered . . .
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August 08, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
Stealing a riff from Duncan, what Digby said. And, again, what Digby said.
I swear, Digby hits more home runs than Barry Bonds. Unless you (like the NY Times and Stanley Fish) think that political commentary . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
I just pulled a dozen links from my "add to the blogroll file" and, well, added them to my blogroll. As usual, it's a rather eccentric collection of blogs which discuss a diverse set of issues; . . .
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August 31, 2007 05:24 PM EDT --
Once more around the web, by categories. I may add to this post without further update labels, just 'cause I'm ornery.
Literary
• It was Andrew Rilestone's writings on J. R. R. Tolkein . . .
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September 10, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
All politics this time...
• Two bleak but elegant summations of where we are now. Although I don't agree with it completely, I think that the first of these is the one link from this round-up . . .
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September 17, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
Again mostly politics (but not entirely, so scroll down if you want to close your eyes to the disaster we're living...).
Politics:
• Ezra Klein reviews Hilary Clinton chief pollster Mark Penn's . . .
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September 23, 2007 08:08 PM EDT --
Read Glenn Greenwald (who's always trying to snatch Digby's spot as best political blogger around) today on Dianne Feinstein. He makes the key point quite clearly, with his usual reams of supporting . . .
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