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Archive for November 15th, 2007

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

See, Rudy Would Have Just SUCKED at Combat, is All….

By Mona
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Greenwald has a must-read post (brief ad click-through) on the combat-avoiding antics of Mitt Romney and “tough guy” Rudy’s draft-dodging. About Rudy (italicized emphasis is mine):

Tough Guy Rudy Giuliani’s, whose deferment request was denied in 1969, [placed] him at imminent risk of being drafted, when he somehow convinced the federal [...]

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

A rambling apology for blogging less lately

By Thoreau
As some of you may have noticed from my various teaching-related threads, I’ve spent much of this quarter in a state of inner turmoil, asking myself all sorts of questions about what really matters in my teaching, what I should really emphasize and what my students really need. This isn’t the bad sort [...]

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Secrets of the Kingdom

By Thoreau
I just picked up Gerald Posner’s Secrets of the Kingdom, a book on Saudi Arabia.  I seem to recall that it got a lot of attention in 2005, so it may be that whatever I have to say on it will be old news.  If you absolutely, positively MUST observe in the comments that [...]