This has been a long time (I haven’t measured, but at least several weeks) since railsplayground.com is having difficulties. I can’t seem to even load http://railsplayground.com/cpanel, and that has nothing to do with my account. It simply won’t load. I don’t even have the opportunity to put in a bad password. Arrgggh.
On the bright side, […]
Archive for January, 2006
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Published January 26th, 2006 in Programming and Soapbox. 0 CommentsReflections on class January 13, 2006
Published January 13th, 2006 in Classes and Voting Rights. 0 CommentsStupid people voting as a first step: One idea that I came up with was that voting is a first step. Even if somebody is stupid and is voting for entirely the wrong reasons, their vote is something that brings them further into the process. Now they have a candidate’s name in their mind, and […]
Well, I just wrapped up the reading for Voting Rights and Representation, and I have a bit fewer comments about Smith.
First of all, I found that he spent far too much time saying what his focus was or would be and none at all actually justifying it. The only justification for the relevance of citizenship […]
I won’t translate the Yiddish above, but you can imagine how I feel. The hypocrite preacher decided today, now that Israel won’t help him build his Christian theme park that will make him millions a year, that now he wishes for Mr. Sharon to make a full recovery. The article points out that Robertson is […]
That was incredibly engaging and enjoyable reading (with the one problem of reading the poorly scanned document). Anyway, the link is here. First comment, in reading the introduction, I could not agree more with the following paragraph:
“On the other hand, we could measure our democracy against an ideal (even if admittedly unachievable) standard. I would […]
Just finished reading Sidney Verba’s comments on equality of political participation for class (if you’re wondering which one, note the categories). Anyway, I have comments on both the content and the writing in the article:
First, the writing: I felt that Verba posed the question well at the beginning, but framed the question in […]
