Wolraich: Obama at the Gates of... Gates
Dr. C: In Praise of Writing Binges
Maiello: Gatsby Doesn't Grate
|
Wolraich: Obama at the Gates of... Gates Dr. C: In Praise of Writing Binges Maiello: Gatsby Doesn't Grate |
Blowing |
Happy Hump Day.
War Crimes: Ratko Mladic arrives at the Hague to face justice. War crimes. How novel.
Syria: The killing of a 13-year-old boy has things taking a turn for the worse for President Bashar al-Assad.
Googled: Things aren't so good for Google's Eric Schmidt, either, but compared to Mladic and al-Assad, it's relative.
Blue Jersey: Chris Christie commands a state helicopter to see his son's baseball game.
Political Wire: Six Republicans facing recall elections as Wisconsin political fallout continues.
The Daily Beast: Why Birtherism will never die.
""News Beards" -- Journalists such as Brett Baier or Shep Smith who trade in credentials and act as cover for Fox News RW agenda"
Throwdown in Miami: Lebron James says dunk you very much in the Heat Game 1 victory over the Mavericks.
Lebron Jabbering: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Isiah Thomas disagree with Scottie Pippen that Lebron James can be as good or better than Michael Jordan. Which one of those guys played with Jordan for years, anyway?
Sarah and Donald: When Sarah Palin meets Donald Trump, a reality show will surely follow.
Pronounced with an Umpty.
--WKW
Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles
By Aamer Madhani, USA Today, May 19, 2013
President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country's pre-eminent historically black college, there is "no time for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.
[....] The president connected his own path to the White House to the work of King and other African-American leaders of that generation. But Obama also conceded that at times as a young man he wrongly blamed his own failings "as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down."
"We've got no time for excuses — not because the bitter legacies...
Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously.
By Julian Pecquet, The Hill, May 18, 2013
Congress is ramping up a new round of sanctions against Iran, ignoring the Obama administration's request to let diplomacy run its course.
In back-to-back hearings this week, lawmakers on key House and Senate panels put the State and Treasury departments on notice that their patience is wearing thin after the latest round of talks last month failed to produce a deal. Both chambers have legislative efforts in the works – the House foreign affairs panel will vote next week – but the administration is warning against any moves that could undermine international support for the existing sanctions against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program [....]
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times/Science, May 16/17, 2013
An article that summarizes the recent work of Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines which is pointing to the theory that dogs domesticated themselves.
But the article's message is not just what it first appears to be. When you get to the concluding paragraphs there are some real though provokers:
[....] SLC6A4 may have played a crucial part in this change, because serotonin influences aggression.
To test these ideas,...
By Neha Paliwal, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 17, 2013
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church had demanded that authorities stop the rally, calling it a "violation of the majority's right."
According to EurasiaNet, the mob, which numbered...
Должен сказать, что у вас очень интересный материал. Прошу вашего разрешения опубликовать его на моем блоге.
The above translates as, "I must say that you have a very interesting material. I ask your permission to publish it on my blog."