Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times : "Hanoi" Jane Fonda endorses Barack Obama; there goes his crossover vote: "Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam War advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat"
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This goes in the "Gee, thanks, but couldn't you have checked with me before you announced that?" category. The article has a nice photo of her sitting with some members of the North Vietnamese military. Ouch.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Political Radar: Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win'
Political Radar: Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win': "ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Governer Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, 'He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win.'"
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Wow. This is what you call hardball politics.
Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Governer Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, 'He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win.'"
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Wow. This is what you call hardball politics.
If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs
If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs: "Some professors threaten to confiscate students’ cell phones if they go off during class. Laurence Thomas has his own approach to classroom distractions. If the philosopher at Syracuse University catches a student sending text messages or reading a newspaper in class, he’ll end the class on the spot and walk out. It doesn’t matter if there is but one texter in a large lecture of hundreds of students. If you text, he will leave."
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This prof may need to chill out a little. But I see his point. There is a big problem with civility these days, with students acting like they are in their living room. Talking with each other in class, coming in late, letting their cell phones ring, packing up their stuff noisily five minutes before class ends, and so forth, all are pretty irritating if you are trying to teach or learn. I actually had a student answer her cell phone and start a having a conversation during the class once. Maybe I should have thrown an eraser at her. The other students acted like they wanted to throw her out the window, but because it was BSB we didn't have a window.
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This prof may need to chill out a little. But I see his point. There is a big problem with civility these days, with students acting like they are in their living room. Talking with each other in class, coming in late, letting their cell phones ring, packing up their stuff noisily five minutes before class ends, and so forth, all are pretty irritating if you are trying to teach or learn. I actually had a student answer her cell phone and start a having a conversation during the class once. Maybe I should have thrown an eraser at her. The other students acted like they wanted to throw her out the window, but because it was BSB we didn't have a window.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dani Rodrik's weblog: American political economics in one picture
Dani Rodrik's weblog: American political economics in one picture: "When a Republican president is in power, people at the top of the income distribution experience much larger real income gains than those at the bottom--a difference of 1.5 percent per year going from the bottom to the top quintile in the income distribution. The situation is reversed when a Democrat is in power: those who benefit the most are the lower income groups."
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POLS 101:
Fascinating graph--take a look.
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POLS 101:
Fascinating graph--take a look.
Homeowners Associations: HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION BILL 1921 SHATTERS AMERICAN DREAM!
Donie Vanitzian: California A.B. 1921 SHATTERS AMERICAN DREAM!
Co-author of Villa Appalling and an L.A. Times column on CID issues, has a lengthy dissection of what is wrong with A.B. 1921, the massive rewrite of the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act drafted mainly by the California Law Revision Commission.
Co-author of Villa Appalling and an L.A. Times column on CID issues, has a lengthy dissection of what is wrong with A.B. 1921, the massive rewrite of the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act drafted mainly by the California Law Revision Commission.
Monday, March 31, 2008
News : Golden Glen residents fear collapse of dam, flooding inevitable - St. Tammany News, Louisiana
News : Golden Glen residents fear collapse of dam, flooding inevitable - St. Tammany News, Louisiana: "Golden Glen residents are sitting in angst as the cement weir keeping a 2,000-foot retention pond from spilling into their neighborhood, crumbles before their eyes."
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Now here is a neighborhood with a real problem on their hands.
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Now here is a neighborhood with a real problem on their hands.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Toles strikes again with Heller case cartoon
POLS 354:
I'll probably get sued for violating copyright, but this is pretty funny:
Friday, March 28, 2008
For Sale: 36 Acres Of Land, Buried Bodies - News - NBC 17
For Sale: 36 Acres Of Land, Buried Bodies - News - NBC 17: "CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. -- Just off U.S. Highway 64 in Chatham County is a sign advertising 36 acres of land for sale. The land is undeveloped and zoned residential and agricultural. Land owner and realtor, Colin MacNair said its closeness to Highway 64 makes it a prime location to develop housing. It also is currently home to a graveyard."
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I saw this movie. This doesn't turn out well for the new owners. Maybe they should name the place Poltergeist Acres.
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I saw this movie. This doesn't turn out well for the new owners. Maybe they should name the place Poltergeist Acres.
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years: "The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years.
According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 -- the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950."
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The internet is killing newspapers, just like cable TV news stations (CNN, FOX, etc.) have been killing network TV news. And when The Smoking Gun can smoke the Los Angeles Times, and Little Green Footballs can debunk Dan Rather and CBS, it isn't hard to see why. Cost, the comparative ease of use, and ideological bias are turning people away from newspapers and network news and on to what were once alternative media and are fast becoming the new mainstream.
According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 -- the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950."
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The internet is killing newspapers, just like cable TV news stations (CNN, FOX, etc.) have been killing network TV news. And when The Smoking Gun can smoke the Los Angeles Times, and Little Green Footballs can debunk Dan Rather and CBS, it isn't hard to see why. Cost, the comparative ease of use, and ideological bias are turning people away from newspapers and network news and on to what were once alternative media and are fast becoming the new mainstream.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?
"One of the key arguments made by David Horowitz and his supporters in recent years is that a left-wing orientation among faculty members results in a lack of curricular balance, which in turn leads to students being indoctrinated rather than educated. The argument is probably made most directly in a film much plugged by Horowitz: “Indoctrinate U.”
A study that will appear soon in the journal PS: Political Science & Politics accepts the first part of the critique of academe and says that it’s true that the professoriate leans left. But the study — notably by one Republican professor and one Democratic professor — finds no evidence of indoctrination. Despite students being educated by liberal professors, their politics change only marginally in their undergraduate years, and that deflates the idea that cadres of tenured radicals are somehow corrupting America’s youth — or scaring them into adopting new political views."
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Interesting study. What do you students think?
"One of the key arguments made by David Horowitz and his supporters in recent years is that a left-wing orientation among faculty members results in a lack of curricular balance, which in turn leads to students being indoctrinated rather than educated. The argument is probably made most directly in a film much plugged by Horowitz: “Indoctrinate U.”
A study that will appear soon in the journal PS: Political Science & Politics accepts the first part of the critique of academe and says that it’s true that the professoriate leans left. But the study — notably by one Republican professor and one Democratic professor — finds no evidence of indoctrination. Despite students being educated by liberal professors, their politics change only marginally in their undergraduate years, and that deflates the idea that cadres of tenured radicals are somehow corrupting America’s youth — or scaring them into adopting new political views."
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Interesting study. What do you students think?
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