August 28, 2006
Eating liberally
I'm now in Our Nation's Capital, what the FBI refers to as the SOG (Seat of Government). I'll be here for the semester, as the (first) Thomas C. Schelling Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. (And yes, it did turn out to be expensive to get all my doorways widened so my head could fit through them.)
The term hasn't started at Maryland yet, so I don't yet have a phone number there, but my home number will be 202 659-0450. All my other contact information remains the same.
I'm not sure whether D.C. has some equivalent of Philadelphia's Drinking Liberally, but I have a (mostly) non-alcoholic alternative to propose. Lei Garden on the north side of H Street between 6th and 7th serves excellent dim sum. I suggest Sunday mornings at 11:30 as a time to gather there. Feel free to drop by unannounced, but if you know you're going to be coming please call or send an email so I'll have some idea what size table to ask for. If we haven't met in the flesh, I'm not hard to spot; I'm 6'1", 250, salt-and-pepper beard.
Is this going to be every Sunday? I hope so, as I'm moving to DC after Labor Day, and any regular habits I can establish will serve me well getting accustomed.
Posted by: Seth D. at August 28, 2006 12:37 PMThere's drinking liberally in DC, see here:
http://drinkingliberally.org/locations.html
Posted by: Ugh at August 28, 2006 12:46 PMYes, I expect to be at Lei Garden at 11:30 every Sunday through the end of December. I've edited the post to try to make that clear. See you in September!
Posted by: Mark Kleiman at August 28, 2006 12:57 PMBlog commenter KCinDC is your contact for liberal drinking in the District. I can have lunch with you and talk about our Guantanamo litigation, if you're interested.
Drop me a line.
Posted by: CharleyCarp at August 28, 2006 01:53 PMYes, Mark, DC Drinking Liberally meets every Thursday at Timberlake's, near Dupont Circle. There's also a Wednesday group, which has just switched to a monthly schedule. See the sidebar at http://dcdl.org for more information.
And welcome to DC! I hope you enjoy your time here.
Posted by: KCinDC at August 28, 2006 03:34 PMIf you'll be there this Sunday, count me in . . . I'm down there for a wedding.
Posted by: Jane Galt at August 29, 2006 10:37 AMAre you in Our Nation's Capitol (the building on, you know, Capitol Hill), or Our Nation's Capital (the city)?
Sorry to be pedantic, but there's a good reason for the different spellings. And if you're going to be teaching public policy, for pete's sake, you really ought to know how to use the right one!
[Ooops! Yes, "capital" means "chief," while Capitol comes from the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Fixed now. MK.]
I'd be there if I didn't live in Massachusetts.
Thanks for your debunking of claims concerning the efficacy of Chuck Colson's "InnerChange" program.
That was an important and necessary piece of work.
Colson has recently re-launched another program - once again backed by a study :
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/49/4/410
[ One can't access that without a subscription, alas. ]
"Operation Starting Line" [ http://www.operationstartingline.net/site_hmpg.asp ] is prediminantly composed of Christian right, Biblical fundamentalist organizations - many affiliated with Colson on some way. Here's the abreviated press release:
"COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 24, 2006—Governor Bob Taft and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction are currently implementing The Ohio Plan for Productive Offender Reentry and Recidivism Reduction, with the goal of the safe and successful return of offenders from Ohio prisons to communities across the state. It is a challenge that extends beyond the Ohio borders to all states across the country
To help meet the daunting need for prisoner rehabilitation, private, not-for-profit organizations are uniting with government to tackle the issue. Operation Starting Line, a partnership of volunteers from local churches and 30 national faith-based organizations, comes to Ohio for the first time Aug. 12 - 20 to launch its most extensive ongoing faith-based prisoner reform effort. "
To date - as far as I can tell - the relaunch of OSL has received little but uncritically favorable coverage.
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