I’m such a coward. Despite the fact that there were live feeds of it all over the ‘net, I found myself experiencing (because neither ‘watching’, nor ‘listening’, nor ‘reading’, seem entirely accurate) the second presidential debate via the blog comments at Atrios. It’s ...
Currently playing on iTunes is the new-ish Mull Historical Society album ‘This is Hope’. It’s every bit as baroque as ‘Loss’ and ‘Us’, every bit as giddily catchy in places and perversely dissonant in others. Colin Macintyre is one of those people who’s way too talented to ...
So I’m up too late watching Prime Minister’s Question Time on C-SPAN, and I find myself missing the oddest things about British politics. And wondering, in an up-too-late sort of way, if anyone has looked at the effect of the architecture of political debating chambers on debating styles and the democratic ...
Somewhere in the US there’s a bright, articulate, worldly kid who can succeed where Michael Newdow failed. It’s frustrating that, after such a long process, the US Supreme Court should throw his case out on what amounts to a technicality. I am so far away from being a lawyer that I’m coming back in the ...