Archive for April, 2005
Schiavo II
Here we go again …
A pregnant 13-year-old girl in Florida has been told she cannot have an abortion because she lacks the maturity to make such a decision.
Her legal guardian is the state of Florida. I wouldn’t wish a fate like that on my worst enemy.
The BBC has this caption under a photo of two […]
Tiger
From a thread on Slashdot:
You know it is Apple related software when the review uses an entire page to comment on the look of the cardboard box.
UPDATE: Speaking of Tiger’s aesthetics, here is a fix for Mail.
UPDATE: A less geeky review of Tiger, which some good critiques of inconsistencies in the new user interface:
The […]
Olympics
Why is New York City spending millions of dollars advertising the Olympics to its own citizens? I’m sick and tired of seeing ads for the Olympics everywhere I go. Personally, I don’t even think having the olympics in New York is a good idea. Here is what Forbes magazine has to say:
The cost of hosting […]
Cables
What really impresses me about President Bush is his almost instinctual ability to choose and elevate to positions of power people who go beyond the call of duty in suppressing information that conflicts with his policy decisions. In a recent post I discussed memos written by Alberto Gonzales (who Bush would like to make a […]
Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong 孝通 (1910-2005), who died on Sunday in Beijing, is best remembered for his passion for sociology and anthropology.
Full story in the China Daily. I’ll add more links here as I come across them.
UPDATE: A nice biography of Fei Xiaotong.
UPDATE: JJ has a bunch of excellent links to books by (and about) Fei in […]
Victory
Another victory for students fighting to improve workers’ rights! The second one this month.
A groundbreaking agreement improving workers’ rights at Washington University was finalized Friday, April 22 ending the 19-day sit-in by members of Washington University’s Student Worker Alliance (SWA). The Wash. U. sit-in was the second longest sit-in in the recent history of […]
Jail
The US prison population has risen further, with one in 138 people now in jail, new official figures reveal.
There are more than 2.1 million US citizens in jail - more than in any other country, the Bureau of Justice Statistics says.
…It means the incarceration rate reached a record of 726 people per 100,000 residents.
This is […]
Anthro Blogs
Alex alerts us to a few new Anthropology blogs.
John Norvell has thrown his hat into the ring with anthroblogs.org, an MT install with a few blogs on them, including his own and a group blog of which he seems so far to be the only contributor. There is also a wiki on anthropology which at […]
The Interpreter
I honestly don’t remember much about Colin Pine. He was a classmate of mine at ICLP in Taipei, where I studied Chinese for a year. Studying Chinese was such a difficult and intense experience for me that I didn’t have much time to socialize with my fellow classmates, but Colin was one of those outgoing […]
Memos
Alan Berlow’s Atlantic Monthly article about death penalty memos written by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to then-Governor George Bush is subscriber only, but fortunately John Dean provides a good summary in an article over at Find Law. Here is an excerpt:
“During Bush’s six years as governor 150 men and two women were executed […]
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