Dive into the archives.
- Curzon, Younghusband and Chirol — Simpsonized!
Have you ever wondered what the ComingAnarchy contributors would look like as characters on The Simpsons? Thanks to the Simpsonizer, I’ve been able to run our pictures and create cartoons of your favorite Victorian statesmen as they would look like in Springfield. Brilliant! D’oh!
And just for good measure, I’ve decided to add one [...]
- On living between cultures
Having spent the past ten years split between Canada and Japan, I feel as if I have been somehow living between cultures. I am confident many of you have experienced a similar feeling. Here I would like to explore this phenomenon through my personal experience, and contextualize it in terms of today’s globalization.
- I say there, war tuba.
The British join the Japanese and the Russians in our collection of war tubas.
Via kende.
- War Without End
As my learned colleague previously noted, “it is time to declare victory in the War on Terrorism and move on.” There is simply no value in war without end. And in this slightly dated, but no less relevant article from the Atlantic Monthly, writer Ken Dermota notes how the war on drugs has [...]
- Area codes in which rapper Ludacris claims to have hoes
Now this is what I call fun with maps:
In the tune Area Codes, rapper Ludacris brags about the area codes where he knows women whom he refers to as “hoes.”:
“I’ll jump off the G4, we can meet outside/So control your hormones and keep your drawers on/’Til I close the door and I’m jumping your bones/3-1-2’s, [...]
- Electoral Systems, Pros and Cons
To follow-up on Younghusband’s post on voter typology, this post concerns three major types of election methods. It is interesting to note that a slight alteration in the way votes are counted can have a major impact on the result of an election.
“Single Candidate District”: In this model, multiple candidates run for election in [...]
- Voter typology
As mentioned yesterday I have been contemplating democracy and the reconciliation of disparate political priorities. The purpose of my intellectual inquiry is to better understand democracy and its political processes.
Policymaking in a democracy is a complex process of debate, competing interests and political horse-trading. Elected officials are representative of voter interests, ideologies or political priorities. [...]
- The Three Revolutions
Thanks as always to the Chief for sending this article, which is an op-ed by Kissinger which loosely lets him put in his own words the substance of his recent interview with Der Spiegel. I note again that his opinion on NATO is in stark contrast to the opinion of CA patron saint Robert [...]
- YH’s thoughts in an airport wait area
It has been a whirlwind week for me, hence the lack of posting. I am currently in an airport waiting room on my way to see Lady Younghusband. I will be spending a few weeks in Japan while I wait for my master’s thesis defense to be arranged. Yes, after 6 long months, I finally [...]
- Can we survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of life?
Readers would not often catch Lord Curzon perusing the pages of Mother Jones, a liberal-progressive commentary magazine. However, a recent article subtitled, “Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?” caught my eye like few other articles have so far in 2008. That question is, I believe, [...]
