Thursday Reads
Good Morning! Well, at least we are alive and not living next to a nuclear plant that is melting down–for now anyway–so I guess you could say it’s a good morning. I’m pretty overwhelmed with trying to...
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Good Morning!! I’m teaching a Psychology of Personality course this semester, and yesterday I started lecturing about Freud and psychoanalytic theory. I was explaining Freud’s notion of the three...
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Good Morning!! Well, we dodged a bullet yesterday when Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced that he won’t be running for president in 2012. Whew! I really didn’t want a president who would...
View ArticleSunday Reads: The day after…the day, that was the last day?
Personally, I have always had a fascination with little people. Good Sunday! We are all still here, and I am a bit disappointed. It would have been real nice to be rid of all these religious right,...
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Good Morning! The top stories on every one’s mind these days are the lousy jobs report last week and the tumbling stock markets. Democrats in the House are calling for new infrastructure spending as a...
View ArticleUS Citizens Arrested, Interrogated, and Stranded Overseas
Gulet Mohamed surrounded by family on return to U.S. From The New York Times, January 5, 2011: An American teenager detained in Kuwait two weeks ago and placed on an American no-fly list claims that he...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald on Presidential Assassinations
Glenn Greenwald: “To say that the President has the right to kill citizens without due process is really to take the constitution and to tear it up into as many little pieces as you can and then burn...
View ArticleLive Blog: Obama Outlines New Policies for Drones, Gitmo in Major Speech
This is a live blog to discuss President Obama’s speech today at the National Defense University. The speech is scheduled for 2PM Eastern time. As I wrote in the morning post, Obama is expected to...
View ArticleLazy Saturday Reads: Signs of Life After the Snowpocalypse
Good Morning!! I can’t wait for spring flowers and warmer weather, can you tell? I have all the symptoms of Spring fever, including inability to concentrate on anything serious, like politics or...
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