I am considering doing a Political Science major with a History concentration. If I can get (and stay) on the Dean’s List, I’m going to look at law school, too. This triumvirate of fields would have been the last three things I thought I would ever do when I was in high school. Life is so strange sometimes. — In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, outgoing Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works James Inhofe (R-OK) argued that the current wave of unprecedented warming is due to “natural changes.” “God’s still up there,” Inhofe said, and to the extent there is warming going on, it is “due to the sun.” He added, “George Soros, the Hollywood elitists, the far left environmentalists on the committee that I chair — all of them want us to believe the science is settled and it’s not.” Watch it. — In a secret end run around Cheney and Rumsfeld, the secretary of state pressed Bush to back the Iraq Study Group — and change the course of the war. Hillary. Nancy. A female presidential candidate in France, Segolene Royal. Condi…Women are takin’ out the trash, big time. filed under: misc and politics | comments: 4 comments |
I’m finding it hard not to agree with this article. I’d pick Giuliani over Lieberman any day of the week. — America’s Mayor v. Wingnut Conservative Zealots …Don’t get me wrong. I’m not throwing my support behind Giuliani. However, if America were to elect another Republican president out of the blood and ashes of the Bush administration, I wouldn’t necessarily hide in my crawl space following the election of President Giuliani (as long as Congress remains Democratic). He surely has his share of scandal and flaws, but really, if there’s going be another Republican in the White House in 2009, I’d rather it be a socially progressive Republican with some real experience in FUBAR crisis management. And I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t vote for him in the general election if he were running against, say for example, Senator Lieberman or DLC commander-in-nothing Senator Bayh. Really. I can’t type their names without becoming enraged or sleepy, respectively. Here’s how I’d handle election day 2008 if it came down to a choice between Rudy and ARG! (Lieberman) or YAWN! (Bayh). I’d walk into the Shouptronic voting booth and press the “X” next to the name of America’s Mayor. Having just voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time ever, I’d go home and shower. For a week. Howard Hughes style. And if Rudy were to win, I’d at least breathe easier knowing the next president isn’t 1) a far right religious zealot, 2) a Bush Family human-animal hybrid, or 3) a man who, despite being tortured in Vietnam, was reduced down to a suit filled with really, really white jelly when facing off against President Bush on the Military Commissions Act and detainee torture…. – Also in politics: - Quelle surprise! Tom DeLay nominates Nancy Pelosi for TIME’s Person of the Year filed under: misc and politics | comments: 3 comments |
I’m pretty stoked about my tentative Spring schedule. Unless something goes wrong, this is it. Three of four classes are at Barnard, the women’s college…Not to fulfill queer stereotypes or anything. American Literature Since 1945: American fiction, literary and cultural criticism since 1945. Topics include: the authorial and critical search for the great contemporary American novel, the particularity of “American” characters, genres, aesthetics, subjects, the effect of these debates on canon formation and the literary marketplace. Authors may include: Bellow, Ellison, Nabokov, Capote, Kerouac, Didion, Pynchon, Morrison, Roth, Allison and Franzen. Survey of American Civilization Since the Civil War: The major intellectual and social accommodations made by Americans to industrialization and urbanization; patterns of political thought from Reconstruction to the New Deal; selected topics on post–World War II developments. French is self-explanatory. Mind, Brain, and Behavior: The general objective of W1010 is to introduce you to neuroscience, the study of the relationship between brain and behavior. Ultimately, researchers in neuroscience hope to unlock the secret of how changes at the cellular and molecular level can lead to mental processes such as memory, language and even consciousness. Reaching this goal requires an understanding of brain function from multiple levels of analysis -from the expression of genes, the communication between individual neurons to the functional organization of brain circuits and behavior. The material for the course is designed to give you a basic understanding of concepts and techniques of neuroscience. I’m so stoked about the Postmodern Lit class! filed under: misc | comments: none |
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