I promised Jonathan, when I submitted my US Politics assignment on health care, that if I got an HD, I’ll post it on here.  Well, I didn’t get an HD, but I did get a prize, so, y’know, close enough.  Here’s a little taste:
The summer of 2009 seemed long for both the Obama administration and [...]

So I’ve just started blogging for the US Studies Centre in what will most likely be a regular gig. Head on over and check out my first post, on Gender Issues in Health Reform and the Shriver Report.  It’ll take us a while to move in, but once it’s all settled, I’ll link y’all to [...]

I totally owe my little brother.  Thanks to him, last Friday, I got my hands on geek gold: a Google Wave invite.
Five days in, I’m hooked.  It’s an amazing platform.  One of the things that strikes me, after playing around on it for a while, is how difficult it is to describe.  My strong suspicion [...]

I live in an apartment, with a flatmate.  About ten or so months ago now, she converted to a particular fringe religion. Which fringe religion is really irrelevant (plus, I’m a tiny bit scared of them), so I’m not going to mention it.
Anyway, over the six months she told me she’d started to follow this [...]

So I hopped in the lift today at work, hours before Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize, and there was a news story on the little screen.  It told of how the Dalai Lama didn’t mind that Obama was avoiding him during the Tibetan’s tour of the United States because of possible jeopardy to US-Chinese [...]