The Stranger, an alternative weekly here in Seattle, is the best source for local news I'm aware of. It certainly beats the other weekly and both dailies. Perhaps there are better sources, but I don't really know where to look. Some of their non-news columns...
Author: djw
I've made the from the left pro-draft arguments on numerous occasions in the last year or so. Mostly, I've done it with students, especially in my Intro to Poli Sci.
Via Crooked Timber I learn of a plagiarist suing a university for not explaining to him that plagiarism is wrong. His defense seems to be that since he wasn't caught early.
Via Digby, we find Rep. Tom Davis (R, VA) indulging in demographic fantasies: If you take out the Indian reservation, we would have won," said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), former chairman of the NRCC. Those damn traitorous Democrats! The audacity! They should be trying to win...
Kevin Drum with an excellent post on Oil. Upshot: Prices are going up. Fluctuations aside, they're not going back down. Depending on who you ask, production has peaked in the last.
I should make clear that I don't consider those who gamble on political events to have any special insights, as dsquared at crooked timber has demonstrated. In general the numbers.
Everyone's all over poll numbers for the Presidential election, and everyone's watching the Senate pretty closely as well. (Speaking of which, there is a nice and very flattering profile of Barak Obama in the most recent New Yorker, which doesn't appear to be online--he looks hard to...
Despite my first post here, I don't plan to use this blog to engage in handwringing about past failings on my part. I'll comment on blogs and politics, like my.
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Briscoe and McCoy on the weekend... UPDATE: This post was to test out link-creating. It seems to work fine. And because it's a pretty cool picture, on Law and Order, um, I mean, Memorial Day.
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