Dive into the archives.
- Rice’s Confirmation
I’ve heard from some and read in commentary that the Democratic Senators who didn’t vote to confirm Rice were “closet racists.” Barbara Boxer, the 50-ish female senator from California, was accused of being “jealous” of her success, and John Kerry, who also voted against Rice’s confirmation, was written off as a sore loser.
At first [...]
- Battle of the Books
Over the past month I read the two following books:
The Pentagon’s New Map
America’s Secret War
Now it’s time for my hard-hitting review as the optimistic futurist takes on the old school hardened analyst in a battle that decides the fate of our world!
- US Children Still Traumatized: 1-Year Anniversary
US Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV
“How can my son Brandon be expected to make it through something like that unscathed?” asked mother of four Shonali Bhomik of the San Francisco-based What About the Children? Foundation, one of many social-awareness groups spearheading the fight for increased NNBD funding in [...]
- Why didn’t we think of that?
The law student blog Buffalo Wings & Vodka (with the subtitle “There’s nothing funny about law school”) is selling “primary sponsorship” on eBay. What does that mean? The guy is selling out in style. Here’s what you’d get:
A sweet banner ad, designed by the blog’s author
Your name built right into the [...]
- Andrés Gentry Asia Blogs Profiles
Nathan over at The Argus was recently interviewed as part of Andrés Gentry’s Profile Series which takes an intelligent look at bloggers covering Asia. The questions range from the personal (when did you start blogging, what languages do you speak, who is your hero) to the political (What sort of foreign policy would you recommend [...]
- 21st Century Sexism?
What is discrimination and what is sexism? Not hiring women for certain positions, or intentionally paying women less for the same job as a man, is clearly gender discrimination. That’s an easy one—but the lines aren’t always so finely drawn.
When Sir Younghusband and I lived in the Kansai region of Japan, West Japan [...]
- Which Yuan is it?
Many pundits around the world are just waiting for the day that China floats its currency which has been pegged for about a decade at 8RMB = 1USD. China’s monetary policy has been blamed for keeping down the US dollar and dampening worldwide economic growth. Take Stratfor for example:
A survey of central bank managers around [...]
- Painful Retrospectives
C-Span’s Booknotes has finally ended after fifteen years of in-depth author interviews. It will be sorely, sorely missed. But on the bright side, all of their programs are archived on line, all of which have transcripts and many of which you can listen to and watch with real player.
It’s funny to go back [...]
- Robert D. Kaplan Wisdom of the Weekend
I went through my (*ahem*, impressive!) library of Robert D. Kaplan audio files on this snowy day in the northeast. I’ve transcoded these from various streaming sources off the net into handy MP3 files and now have 31 of his interviews and speeches adding up to eighteen hours of pure Kaplan. Yes, this [...]
- Bush Highlights Perils of Sign Language
U.S. President George W. Bush’s “Hook ‘em, ‘Horns”Â? salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his family’s hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan. ... For Texans, the gesture is a sign of love for the University of Texas Longhorns, whose fans are known to shout out “Hook [...]
