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Url:http://blog.lordsutch.com/
Author(s):Chris Lawrence
Language:English
Tags:academe, politics, trivia
Description:Discussion of current events, academe, political science, trivia, and other things that strike my fancy.
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Popularity:13 Followers

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Why the dead tree media is in trouble
I’ll read free news originally published in Spanish and then poorly translated into English before paying for news that was poorly written in English in the first place.
2009-11-27
On useful idiocy
The Economist on former CNDer-turned-EU foreign policy czar Catherine Ashton and the double standard that seems to apply to the former communist fifth column in the West:The real scandal, though, i...more
2009-11-26
In which I further undermine my tenure case
Prof. Karlson quotes from a Chronicle debate over the question, Are Too Many Students Going to College?, specifically the reaction of W. Norton Grubb of Berkeley:We do have a moral obligation, emer...more
2009-11-10
QotD, Stupak amendment edition
From TigerHawk’s reaction to the furor surrounding the Stupak anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the health care bill:The real problem, of course, is that this fight reveals the ...more
2009-11-09
On excessive moderation
As Steven Taylor notes, the third-party candidacy by Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd congressional district seems to have backfired, delivering a solid Republican seat for generations to Demo...more
2009-11-04
There's your problem
Laredo’s population: well over 200,000. Number of bookstores in Laredo, effective January 2010: zero.
2009-11-03
Yeah, that will fix the problem
The SEC is going to fix its officiating problems by… blaming the messenger:Commissioner Mike Slive told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday that coaches who violate the conferen...more
2009-10-30
Things I will believe are true when they happen
Agence France-Presse reports that the sorta-kinda-coup leader in Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, has accepted a deal that will return sorta-kinda-ex president Manuel Zelaya to the presidency, althoug...more
2009-10-29
Your spring 2010 textbook lists
I don’t have syllabi yet—the plan is to make a few changes to the spring 2009 syllabi but nothing radical—but here’s the list:For PSCI 2306, Texas government (aka American S...more
2009-10-27
I question the timing
Your bad juxtaposition of the day, courtesy of Pro 8 News, home of Richard “Heatwave” Berler:Nuevo Laredo debuts a new tourism promotion campaign.Shootout in Nuevo Laredo between Mexica...more
2009-10-22

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