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The International Herald Tribune reports that Myanmar’s leaders have just allowed foreign aid workers into the country. I seem to recall a story from a week or two ago about how they were accusing France of sending a warship to take over their country, when France suggested that the ship was actually coming with doctors [...]
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17 May 2008Can you guess the state? Recently had about 100 students arrested, and several fraternties banned, after a massive drug dealing operation was busted at a state university. Recently became the second state in the nation to give homosexuals equal rights. Recently had 2 arrested at another school for selling body parts on the black market. [...]
I’ve never liked the Olympics. I don’t like watching sports on TV. I can watch a Sox game because they’re “my” team,” and I’m cool with the Patriots games being on in the background. The Olympics, though, aren’t fun to watch. So without anything against them, I already have no interest. I’m also really annoyed [...]
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4 Mar 2008There’s a women’s rights movement going on in South Africa. One thing I think is interesting is that people tend to view this as backwards–they’re just now having a women’s rights movement? But I view it differently. They became a Republic in 1961. It took us centuries from being founded on supposedly-democratic principles before we [...]
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19 Feb 2008Anyone who’s learned about the Cold War will be familiar with the chilling fact (no pun intended…) that we came very close to a nuclear war. But after reading things like this article, mixed with other anecdotes, I’m left wondering how on Earth we didn’t go to war… Accidentally. Both the U.S. and the Soviets, [...]
For reasons that even I don’t understand, I find myself thinking a lot about improving schools. And yesterday was one of those joyous experiences where several different thoughts suddenly overlapped, forming something new. One of my professors is an adjunct professor who teaches at several different schools. And she was talking about how it seemed [...]
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12 Feb 2008I don’t consider myself a ‘hardcore environmentalist,’ but I’m not sure there’s anyone on the planet who wouldn’t agree that this is absurd. It could be easily fixed, too, if someone (Indonesian government? UN? Environmental groups?) were willing to pay a bit. Hand out nets, and offer a nominal amount of money for each pound [...]
I didn’t think it could be done, but I just got choked up watching a music video on politics, the Yes We Can Song. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can. We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles [...]
Prediction: Tennessee is going to be challenged. It’s kind of hard to run a good election when a tornado runs through your state, which has quite possibly screwed with results. I’m not sure if there’s any precedent for this, so there’s a potential for this to get interesting.
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5 Feb 2008Engadget (but strangely, no mainstream news sites?) is reporting that a fourth underseas fiber cable has been pierced in the Middle East. People are now starting to draw the conclusion I draw the second time: something fishy is going on. (Err, no pun intended there…) Underseas cables don’t get cut that often, but for four [...]