Nixon and his crew suspected Felt (because they mistakenly thought he was Jewish), but dismissed the idea (because they mistakenly thought he would not risk the damage to his reputation): White House officials suspected Felt was leaking to The Post as early as October 1972. According to an account written five years ago by Chase [...]
The Linguistlist now offers RSS Feeds. These are really nicely done – you can get the most recent posts, or you can subscribe to individual categories, like book reviews. All academic lists should follow suit! (via Rex – thanks!) {linguistic anthropology, linguistics, listserve, rss}
Mosquito Brother is the alias of Hsu Hai-ching 許海清, one of Taiwan’s top gangsters, whose funeral procession yesterday included thousands of gangsters from all over the Pacific rim. The gangsters were obviously not too scared of the Police, who took the opportunity to videotape them. “Police videotaped those alleged gangsters to look into whether they [...]
I’m very upset to report that I’ve been demoted. In Google’s English edition Keywords is now only the number two result for “Kerim.” I am no longer number one. I don’t see how I can possibly compete with a religious site, so I imagine I will never be number one again. In Taiwan, I’m only [...]
Another anthropology grad student/blogger crosses the finish line! Congrats Biella. {anthropology, Bloggers, dissertation, graduate student, thesis}
According to Max Sawicky, and I think he’s right, the real story behind the filibuster compromise is that the Democrats have helped strengthen the power of the Republican moderates. Broadly speaking, this deal looks to be more about leadership in the Senate than any relief from awful judicial nominations. Frist and the fundies want the [...]
Arrived in Taipei yesterday. A long, if uneventful journey. This is the first time my flight went through the new Nagoya airport in Japan, and arrived at the new terminal at Chiang Kai Shek airport in Taiwan. In the past I always stopped at Narita and disembarked at the old terminal. While Narita exudes a [...]
Jeanne, who is going to join Tom Tomorrow in what is turning into a wonderful group blog, has been doing some good blogging on the Afghan prisoner abuse story. Here she focuses on one victim: Dilawar was a shy, frail, uneducated cab driver who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time [...]
I’m not going to be mirroring all my Savage Minds posts here, but if you are a friend or fan of mine and for some reason only wish to read those Savage Minds posts written by me, you can visit my author archive page. I discourage this, because the other Savage Minds authors are well [...]
I am not a programmer. Except I am. What I mean is: I never sat down to study how to code, or ever wrote anything from scratch. However, at some point I discovered that this code stuff isn’t that difficult. I think it was when I was trying to automate something on my computer and [...]