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 the [...]
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 the [...]
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 is [...]
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 system [...]
The crowd in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, gathered to hear Barack Obama speak during the 2008 campaign.
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 [...]