Just when I couldn’t get any more depressed aout the baseball hearings, which I will write about presently, I wake up this morning to this headline: GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify You think its gonna be on TV? Can we get any more bizarre than this? Obviously she was asked to testify in an …
I talk quite a bit about the Middle East on this here website, and every once in a while I mention the EU or China. In case you haven’t been following it, China and Taiwan are mad at each other. Taiwan is an island about a hundred miles off the coast of China, and to …
So I’m watching some pre-season Red Sox and my extended family – in – law starts talking about the upcoming Congressional subcommittee hearing on steroids. The main thing we discuss is how, of all the players who have been subpoened, one is conspicuously absent: Barry Bonds. Since I’d never really thought about juicing much before …
Via Under The Same Sun, the Washington Post had the audacity to carry a story in which an objector to American detainee torture policy was shipped home restrained to a backboard. The punchline is that the objector was a California National Guard Sergeant serving in Army Intelligence and the guy who stripped him of his …
Okay, I know I promised a bigger update, but despite the fact that I’ve negotiated all the first round of term papers I’m still up to my eyeballs in it. I have two surprise exams next week, so instead of a big ol’ update, I’m going to point out some ridiculous ironies and happenings in …
I do solemnly swear to update a little later today. In order to make up for lost time, I’ll publish some of the things I’ve been working on! What follows is my analysis of the European Union’s quest for a constitution. To the American student of international politics, the EU is an accepted entity. We …