Day: December 9, 2010

DADT fails in the Senate: Open Thread IFRL-NaPP-Asia-800px-Qiu_Ying_-_Spring_Morning_in_the_Han_Palace_-_Walters_3548_-_View_I

DADT fails in the Senate: Open Thread

Erik Kain December 9, 2010

So Reid brought DADT (as part of the Defense Authorization Bill) to a vote. It failed to...

Learning Co-Operatives and Corner Schools IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-459421

Learning Co-Operatives and Corner Schools

Erik Kain December 9, 2010

In the comments, E.C. Gach imagines a charter school I’d certainly get behind: So what if in...

Making sense of the DREAM Act IFRL-TLC-Scenery-33783886463_1a91968a65_o-1

Making sense of the DREAM Act

Erik Kain December 9, 2010

Timothy Lee has a really good post up responding to Reihan Salam on the merits of the...

Wikileaks and War; Context and Common Cause IFRL-Mindiv-rawpixel-id-77281

Wikileaks and War; Context and Common Cause

Barrett Brown December 9, 2010

The following is one of several short essays I wrote on Wikileaks between March and April of...

Wikileaks and the Tea Party IFRL-Mindiv-rawpixel-id-428230

Wikileaks and the Tea Party

Jason Kuznicki December 9, 2010

One side effect of the Wikileaks controversy is how it’s fracturing the Tea Party movement. On the...

Trading Off Security for (Relative) Privacy IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.montmartre-behind-the-moulin-de-la-galette-6

Trading Off Security for (Relative) Privacy

James Hanley December 9, 2010

The issue of the new airport security requirements is still rolling around in my mind. I left...

Saul Degraw on POETS Day! Things from William Carlos Williamshttps://www.facebook.com/ScarthinBooks/posts/the-american-poet-william-carlos-williams-was-born-on-t…
Chris in reply to Saul Degraw on POETS Day! Things from William Carlos WilliamsAnother favorite we read in high school: According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farm…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on The Department of Good ThingsFor what it's worth, if the biggest education problem we were facing was too much money for Girls' S…
Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025And good news for fans of due process.
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Luigi Mangione's defense team is arguing that Mangione's backpack was searched illegally. If this ho…
CJColucci in reply to Saul Degraw on The Department of Good ThingsWho gets to decide? Its creators. Congress and the President in tandem, or Congress on its own with…
Saul Degraw on POETS Day! Things from William Carlos WilliamsI like his poems inspired by Brughel paintings
North in reply to Jaybird on The Department of Good ThingsI'd lay those trendlines more at the doorstep of our evolution from the internet of text to the inte…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on The Department of Good ThingsI think you mean this: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1919105128465944866 Also this: https://www.yout…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on The Department of Good ThingsWho gets to decide whether a Department or a law failed in its intent or not? Well, can we discuss w…