Category: Politics

A blogger’s perogative?

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Five Things I Have Been Persuaded to Change My Mind about Since College: Note: These are not things that I have changed my mind about due to exposure (such as a newfound fondness for Early Music or the realization that…

Liberals, arts, colleges

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I happened to see a New York Times article about two recent studies of the Liberal Professoriate (working paper versions are available of the two, How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields and…

Theme Song

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Over at Kos, Chik Patty asks What Should Kerry’s Campaign Song be? Your Humble Blogger thinks it’s a fun, fun question. There are two ways to play, boys and girls; seriously or less so. Da Boss? Ray Charles (may he…

Whew. That was hard.

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Well, and what did Your Humble Blogger learn from all of this? I learned a lot about the various candidates, of course, which was interesting and fun in itself. I learned that it is way way easier to project a…

Alfred ‘Al’ Sharpton

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Reverend Alfred ‘Al’ Sharpton (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Um. Well. He was a tour manager for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. He is only slightly less qualified than Lincoln was, right? Seriously, he is the head of the…

Joseph I. Lieberman

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Joseph I. Lieberman (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Joe Lieberman went to Yale undergraduate and law, then went into the Connecticut Senate. He was Majority Leader of the State Senate there for a while, then ran for Congress and lost. He…