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.. is now up. It’s focused on crime control. There’s an active debate thread at the bloggingheads site.
Archive for September, 2009
September 24th, 2009
Tonight was the big Cal teach-in before tomorrow’s day of walkout/protest/demonstration scheduled for all University of California campuses….Back in the day, a teach-in was teaching: faculty who knew something about an issue tried to explain it, sometimes just propagandizing but preferably illuminating complications and subtleties of the state of affairs (Vietnam War, racial injustice, etc.) triggering the state of protest. Tonight, not so much; the six speakers were earnest and lively, but the critical thinking of which we’re supposed to be a veritable factory had mostly left the building.
September 23rd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Blames JFK assassination on Israel.
Is he looking for a new job speaking at Tea Parties or chairing the RNC?
September 23rd, 2009
Category: Britain, Spirituality and Religion
An old-fashioned objection to the revived cult of relics.
September 22nd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Never voluntarily do in public anything you don’t do well.
September 22nd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized, Watching Conservatives
Eric Cantor, the chief Republican whip in the House, says that no one should be unable to get medical care. But he’s unwilling to do anything about it.
September 22nd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The case against the public option, as seen by insurance company execs.
September 21st, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Drinking Liberally in Santa Monica Wednesday at 7.
Zócalo Public Square at the California Endowment downtown next Tuesday at 7:30.
September 21st, 2009
On Wednesday evening I attended a “teach-in” sponsored by the local chapter of student “government” at Berkeley, the Senate of Associated Students of the University of California. A half-dozen faculty (not me) offered ten-minute perspectives on current events, which are heading to a university-wide walkout on Sept. 24; Friday the Senate voted unanimously to support [...]
September 20th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Pass something under reconciliation that improves the bargaining position of the good guys and weakens the bargaining position of the bad guys. Then sit down to negotiate.