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Current Topic: Politics and Law

Zer Gut!
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

Description from Mtanga:

The video below is, in my view, a very funny, albeit scathing parody of the last days of the Clinton campaign. However, I urge you not to watch it if you are sensitive to foul language, as it is replete with filthy words. Also, it's worth mentioning that the footage used is from a truly superb 2005 film called Downfall, in which Bruno Ganz gives a sensational performance as Adolph Hitler. Highly recommended and well worth renting.

Zer Gut!


Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency


Congressional Budget Office - Testimony on Current and Future Investment in Infrastructure
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

Testimony before the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House of Representatives

Congressional Budget Office - Testimony on Current and Future Investment in Infrastructure


Vote Like Thy Neighbor
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

The buzz these days is that American politics may be entering a “postpartisan” era, as a new generation finds the old ideological quarrels among baby boomers to be increasingly irrelevant. In reality, matters are not so simple. Far from being postpartisan, today’s young adults are significantly more likely to identify as Democrats than were their predecessors. Along with colleagues at the Brookings and Hoover institutions, we recently completed a comprehensive study of the nation’s polarization. Our research concludes not only that the ideological differences between the political parties are growing but also that they have become embedded in American society itself.

Vote Like Thy Neighbor


A Transportation Crossroads
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

All the gas tax talk has stirred up a storm. Whatever you think about the candidates' proposals, however, their debate has illuminated an urgent reality: If the U.S. government continues with its current transportation policies, it will undermine the social and economic security of our workforce and accelerate global climate change. We must chart a new course, rebuilding America's overburdened and, in many cases, obsolete transportation infrastructure while addressing these two 21st-century imperatives.

A Transportation Crossroads


Tibet: dream and reality
Topic: Politics and Law 9:02 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

Slavoj Zizek:

The West is projecting not only its own spiritual fantasies upon Tibet, but its own economic fears upon China, imagining a power struggle quite different from that which has actually happened in Tibet. We have to learn to look at Tibet as it is – and China too.

Tibet: dream and reality


Noam Chomsky on 1968
Topic: Politics and Law 9:01 pm EDT, May 11, 2008

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.nullnullnull

Noam Chomsky on 1968


Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Topic: Politics and Law10:52 am EDT, May  4, 2008

In the summer of 1976, as Chairman Mao lay on his deathbed in Beijing, the pigs at the Ximen Village Production Brigade Apricot Garden Pig Farm in Gaomi County, Shandong Province, also began to die. The first batch of five were found with “their skin dotted with purple splotches the size of bronze coins, their eyes open, as if they’d died with unresolved grievances.” The commune vet declared they had succumbed to “what we call the Red Death” and ordered them to be cremated and buried immediately. But it had been raining for weeks and the ground was too waterlogged. Dousing the carcasses with kerosene and trying to set them alight simply filled the farm with vile-smelling smoke. Soon 800 more pigs were infected. A fresh team of vets arrived by motorboat with more sophisticated medicines, but their ministrations were of little help. Dead pigs were piled up throughout the farm, their bloated forms expanding and exploding in the heat.

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out


State of the Union Sentence Bars
Topic: Politics and Law10:52 am EDT, May  4, 2008

As I pointed out in my last post, Directed Sentence Drawings generated from a text make it extremely difficult to see in what order the various topics were discussed and that a simple bar for each sentence in the order they occurred in the text and coloured by topic would be much better in most respects. I've built a graphic to show what I mean. I have also added the most frequent topic words for each set of 10 consecutive sentences.

State of the Union Sentence Bars


Listening to Iraq | The American Prospect
Topic: Politics and Law10:52 am EDT, May  4, 2008

The news coverage of the Iraq War almost always ignores the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis. Seeking out those personal stories could help us understand the war's human cost.

Listening to Iraq | The American Prospect


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