BRICS Without Mortar
Despite its recent expansion, the BRICS ‘alliance’ is nothing more than vaporware. Claims of the death of the American-led world order have been greatly exaggerated.
Tagged: Development
Tom’s vs Time, and Everyone Else
Old and Busted: NIMBY, YIMBY – Never/Yes In My Back Yard. New Hotness: FIMBY – Forever In My Back Yard
Realizing The Commentariat: Phase 2
Submitted for your consideration and feedback: “State of the Discussion,” “Comments This Thread,” “Commenter Archives.” Also: Old-Yellering “Gifts of Gab.”
Comment Subscriptions Reloaded Rejected and Replaced
Current subscriptions (the ones that are working) will still function, but we need to switch over to a more reliable if less feature-rich application.
In-Reply-To Linking and Comment Subscriptions
Two changes affecting commenting, one simple, one complicated.
OT Site Dev Sitrep
It’s OK to say “Heidegger” and “Wittgenstein” and to include up to three links in the body of your comments; I’m going to do a fingers-crossed changeover on the comment subscriptions system soon; you can now use either of two contact forms, general/editorial and support, available via the main menu under “Contact”; expect more tweaking as we work on bigger changes.
For your consideration and especially your comments…
Six simple changes to commenting format and functionality, of which five, with your cooperation (and if all goes as expected), can be demonstrated, tested, and assessed on this post’s comment thread. The sixth has already been implemented site-wide
Fresh as boiled cabbage
Having endured one of his commencement addresses, I naively assumed that my opinion of Newt Gingrich could not get much lower. Boy was I wrong! No, I’m not referring to his incoherent objections to...
Too little colonialism?
At the Corner, Mark Krikorian proposes one possible explanation for Haiti’s woes: My guess is that Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough. The ancestors of today’s Haitians, like elsewhere in...
