Music
iTunes favorites
I'm about to make some changes to my iTunes setup that might erase its history, so before I lose it, here are my 10 most played songs of the last four years: * 1. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 * 2. "Ruin
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Sports
Footie follow-up
West Ham 1-2 Liverpool. Happiness reigns in Anfield!
Intellect
Opposites
To follow up on my last post... It is said that the opposite of love is not hate, but rather indifference. Two kinds of passion differ less with each other than they both do with a lack of passion. In the same way, the opposite of a left-wing polemic
Portland
I love Portland, Part 7
Seen on Southeast 6th Avenue this afternoon: A Chevrolet Corvair with the Oregon license plate "UNSFE". Anywhere else I would call it irony. In Portland, though...Nader voter feeling guilt?
Sports
Footie chat for Lucy
Only 7 shopping days left before Liverpool knocks the stuffing out of West Ham.
LIS
Ohio State University librarian controversy
At Ohio State's main campus, April was usually the time for protests: The weather was nice and thousands of students had senioritis. Marches would be held, demands would be presented, promises would be made, and all would be forgotten by September. But at OSU-Mansfield? I never thought
Politics
What does "the decider" decide?
President Bush made a characteristic error this morning while speaking to the press: [O]n Friday I stood up and said, I don't appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld; he's doing a fine job, I strongly support him. […] I listen to all voices, but mine is
Politics
The first warblogger
Tertullian The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Politics
Three years on
Many of today's "conservatives" are not conservative. Their reaction to the fall of Saddam three years ago was a telling case in point. Rather than burning with radicality and hubris, wouldn't remembering the wisdom of Edmund Burke have been the conservative thing to do?
History
Scapegoats
If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the
Music
Delivered from the elements
I walked down to Buckman this morning listening to "Skylarking" by XTC. Just as "Ballet for a Rainy Day" started, the sun broke out from the clouds.
Politics
Will they never learn?
The Bush administration believed that the Iraqi war would be beneficial in the long run because the Iraqi people would accept an imposed government led by Ahmed Chalabi. The administration now believes that an Iranian war would be beneficial in the long run because the Iranian people would accept an