I must not think bad thoughts

I am suspending this blog, at least for the moment. If you want to read thoughts of mine that are not as bad and are more academic in natur...

Here is one of the most interesting uses of the blog format: 100 Days of Rwanda a day by day account of the Rwanda genocide as it unfolded ...

From Reuters: Germany’s application for a permanent seat on an enlarged UN Security Council would not be vetoed by the US, a German newspap...

Jeffrey Sachs makes a grim recommendation about Iraq: the Unites States has nothing to gain from staying, everything to lose--the military ...

In my previous post , I asked how the memorialization of racial injustice and the civil rights movement in American can be understood. This...

Yesterday, the Department of Justice reopened the investigation of the murder of Emmet Till , a young black man who was killed in 1955 for w...

The parade of gaming has continued. Last week, my wife and I purchased Samurai ($39)( review at Board Game Geek ), another German game fro...

Due to Ollie's health, our trip to Lyon and Rhone-Alpes is postponed until October. We don't want to be in a place where it will ta...

The purported secrecy of the Taguba Report has been much discussed. (Is this one of those Foucaultian things in which, despite out Victori...

Today's "The Connection" had a great program about military discipline, the war on terror and Abu Ghraib. Two of the guests ...

This the Washington Post article ( "As insurgency Grew, So Did Prison Abuse" ) is offered in support of my previous post : U.S. o...

George jr. is paying the price for thumbing his nose at international institutions. Success in Iraq is in jeopardy. Indeed, I have heard l...