February 2012
9 posts
Eulogy for EricJames Borges, as delivered by...
“As he wrote in his note to me, “Oh God, where do I begin?” I know there are people who knew him longer and there are people who may have known him better, but over the last year, and especially the last three months we lived together, EricJames was My Boy, and my heart is broken.
And I will never get over this, but We will get through it.
As much as I would love everything I say today...
ameteorshower asked: I think most of your blog is pretty awesome, but I saw you reblogged fyeahdemocrats... Why would you do such a blasphemous thing?! that blog is about as accurate as Michael Savage is.
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Submitted by sisterofshakespeare
http://mysarcasticlife.tumblr.com/
yep. pretty much.
January 2012
37 posts
Submitted by rachelnotrachael.
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sam-shamus asked: In response to the "you want to become president/ prime minister" meme, the general assumption is that because you are studying political science you are studying how to become a politician. Which is a mischaracterization of the major, and causes most of us to rage about getting asked this.
freehand-son asked: In response to memes such as "political science means you want to be a politician, right?" (cry): I completely understand the premise (why join the system we despise), but how effectual do you think change from outside can be? The way I see it, we need intelligent minds to replace our current congressmen, and if all our intelligent minds reject the notion, our congress will simply...
[gandhi]
Submitted by Grace.
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Every goddamn time !
Remaining GOP candidates' most hated.
fyeahdemocrats:
Rick’s Santorum - Gays. (Dan Savage).
Newt Gingrich - Blacks. ex-wives.
Ron Paul - Jews/Banks/Gays/Blacks/The Media
Mitt Romney - Himself as Massachusetts Governor.
Is anyone watching the GOP debate tonight?
Send in your thoughts. Especially if those thoughts are dripping with sarcasm.
asinineastatine asked: A little late, but everyone who asked pretty much nailed the definition of nation and state. A state can be made up of many nations, whereas the term "nation" is often incorrectly applied to the state and various other terms, such as "nationalism" and "international affairs" (which would be more accurately represented by "state"). A good author to read on...
I’ve been trying for years to convince my family that I have no designs on holding public office, but they’ve never gotten over the “political” in my political science undergraduate major long enough to catch the “policy analysis” or “conflict resolution” parts of my graduate degree.
With very few exceptions, yes. But not in this case…
http://sisterofshakespeare.tumblr.com/
Don't need to wait for all the votes to come in...
Already know a homophobic, classist, douchebag won today.
andrewxnguyen asked: Re: State vs Nation. You had it basically right. Legally, the Montevideo Convention is the standard used to define statehood: permanent population, defined territory, a government, and a capacity to enter into relations with other states. A nation/country becomes a state when it meets these guidelines. Nation can refer to any group of people that have any sort of trait they acknowledge that they...
peace-love-molly asked: some good articles for the state is the "state in question" (i think its by stuart) and "quest-ce qu'une nation". for the nation, i think its also important to distinguish between primordial beginnings and new beginnings (based on culture vs borders/politics). a good article for that would be "do nations have navels?" sorry but i forgot all the authors of these...
daystreamer asked: you could add that the establishment of a "state" requires some threshold of international recognition and the ability to maintain and defend relatively uncontested borders. "Nations" also tend to require influential actors propagating the nationalism of the group, generally through shared concepts or symbols (ex: Canadian identity is linked to universal health care, Chechen...
freehand-son asked: Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the difference between "nation" and "state"?
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Apparently a civilization known for the corruption...
brosephstalin:
Apparently a civilization known for the corruption and extravagant wealth of it’s 1% is more equal than the present day United States of America.
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In The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire, a careful paper published in the Journal of Roman Studies in 2009, Walter Scheidel and Steven Friesen estimate the size and...