If, as Doonesbury suggests, the terrorists really are after us because they hate freedom, there may be no need to fear any longer. The NLRB has ruled that it is perfectly legal for an employer to ban workers from socializing on their free time! When I first read this on JJ’s blog I thought it [...]
After wasting an afternoon figuring out how to set up Audio Hijack to automatically record yesterday’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Marketplace so that I can listen to them on my iPod, I found out that NPR is going to start offering free podcasts! (Along with the shows they already offer fee podcasts of [...]
Anyone who knows me will be shocked to find that I’ve been writing about sports, but that is just what I’ve been doing over at Savage Minds. First a post about ethnic soccer clubs in Australia, and then a post about the representation of Aborigines in Taiwanese baseball. {Aboriginal, anthropology, Australia, Baseball, Soccer}
Donald Trump has a blog! I wouldn’t get all excited, except for the fact that it is hilarious. Here is Donald Trump on Kozlowski (the Tyco CEO involved in a corruption scandal): As I watched this public embarrassment over and over again, it made me realize that my biggest problem with Kozlowski wasn’t the alleged [...]
From The Christian Science Monitor, English is increasingly the language of French businesses: In a recent survey of 26 of France’s largest companies, 16 gave English as their official working language – including Renault, Danone, and Aventis. Of these, nine have dropped French altogether. Seven put English and French on equal footing. The French, of [...]
I’ve been trying to keep up with the responses to last week’s big news about the AFL-CIO split. Kim Scipes’ roundup is by far the most thorough if you want to know what people in the labor movement are saying. Most responses have been fairly negative, suggesting that the split was more about power struggles [...]
What is interesting about this story from the Washington Post isn’t the sheer number of Chinese engaged in (often violent) protests against the state, but that the government is openly discussing the issue: Reflecting the leaders’ concern, the People’s Daily, the main party newspaper, declared in a front-page editorial July 28 that any attempt to [...]
Amazing, one of the most famous photographs in the world, and I had never seen it before. (via Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well) {china, Education, Photographs, photography, photos, Project Hope, 中國}
Shashwati has been written up in the South Asian press! His eventful life makes for a perfect movie script – serial murders, young, beautiful women and daring escapes from prisons across the world. Now, Charles Sobhraj, one of the most wanted serial killers of the 1970s, has made it to the silver screen. Indian filmmaker [...]
Those who haven’t been reading my other blog, Savage Minds, have been missing the huge debate that arose about a couple of posts we wrote on Jared Diamond’s book, Guns, Germs and Steel. If you want to follow the debate in its entirety, you should start on this page; but with over 90 comments and [...]