Education
Aggie car decorations
Seen on a car in Houston today: [bumpersticker] They can send me to college, but they can't make me think! [window decal] Texas A&M Engineering
Steve Casburn
Sports
Secrets to success
A book review from the April 15, 2003 issue of Library Journal (pg. 156): The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom From an April 29, 2003 article by the Associated Press: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A son of Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden pleaded guilty Tuesday to swindling millions from
Politics
Federal outlays in the late 1990s
Patrick Ruffini's blog is one of the more thought-provoking political blogs out there. I often disagree with Patrick, but his writing demonstrates a literacy and his research a numeracy that I appreciate and learn from, and I often forward his entries to friends. I was surprised, then,
Sports
An ode to Michigan futility
The year is at about its halfway point -- six months since Ohio State beat Michigan, and six months until the Buckeyes travel to Ann Arbor to play again -- so today, near the nadir of the year, seems like a good time to note that University of Michigan graduates have been
Remarks
A Freudian slip?
The headline from an article about the Notre Dame football team in the Washington Post edition for November 23, 1963 (note that date): Irish Shooting for Atonement (I wonder if someone got fired over that...)
History
Chirac's foreign policy
At first glance, it is puzzling that Jacques Chirac, the major French conservative of our time, led the effort (and went to such an extreme) to oppose the American government's decision to occupy Iraq. But as the founder of the Rassemblement Pour la République, Chirac is, above all,
History
The future of Iraq
In my heart, I hope that today's celebration in Baghdad is justified by future events, and that Iraqis will soon enjoy a stable government that presides peacefully over a free people. In my mind, I doubt as Edmund Burke did: [...] I cannot stand forward and give praise or