An image-obsessesd pacifist, a Game Theory 101 failure looking for a quick campaign, and a grieving hatemonger walk into an ecumenical religious edifice… It sounds like the start of a bad joke, yes? ETR and I covered Cindy Sheehan’s visit to University of Maryland, College Park, and their lecture at the Memorial Chapel. ETR has… Continue reading this entry
Meryl’s got a new look going about her. Looks good, ya? Bears my mark, too. This is the first template that I made that doesn’t have posts as the subset of the date. I remember reading Michael Heilemann‘s iconoclastic blog post about it a long, long time ago, but didn’t have the nuts to do… Continue reading this entry
But hello to the people behind “Pajamas Media.” I need to hit you on the head with a cast iron skillet. I may be alone, or they may only be a few of us in this situation, but I will be in charge of a number of CSS retoolings on October 1, and all of… Continue reading this entry
Out of the Crooked Timbre of their blog, no voice emerges to carry a tune. Guys, Althouse got you and your readers and got you good. I’ve been meaning to write a few notes on just how left wing some artists and techies can be, but in the end their political leanings don’t mean squat… Continue reading this entry
I’m off to UMCP to hear what Mother Cindy has to say. I’ll be teaming up with ETR on the coverage. Not sure whether he’ll live blog it or not, but I know I won’t, since I don’t have my own laptop. I’ll be providing a recap/post-mortem commentary.
I stole this shot of a student taking a nap outside the Glenn L. Martin building at UMCP. (See this picture on Flickr.)
Y’know, picking on a university paper’s “news” is too easy sometimes. Let’s take one of today’s cover stories on The Diamonback, whose central theme is the general apathy of students towards anti-war protests. “Unlike the war in Vietnam this isn’t driven by the campuses,” said Gar Alperovitz, political economy professor. Thankfully. I’m guessing students want… Continue reading this entry
Hey, did I ever admit to having the new Battlestar series (Heh, “new,” yes? As if the “original” one were worth discussing…) as my favorite scifi show? It’s been that way for a while now, and I have a love-hate cycle going on about it too. I’m the type who can really get into a… Continue reading this entry
I got my WordPress.com account yesterday. It runs nightlies (!!!) or very recent updated version of WP-MU, with the 1.6 interface. It’s pretty snazzy, and since it’s not something I can customize, I can concentrate on writing. Truth be told I really needed that other location simply because sometimes it feels stupid and incoherent to… Continue reading this entry
A student reads the day’s edition of The Diamondback, UMCP’s daily paper, as if in the fashion of Rodin’s The Thinker. (See this picture on Flickr.)