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March 19th, 2011 Chuck.P No comments
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Disgust

January 24th, 2011 Chuck.P No comments

Once again, Jon Stewart has shown himself to be one of the few Americans able to act like an adult. What happened in Arizona was a tragedy, one crazy-ass motherfucker acting out, like the Ft Hood shootings.

Tea Party Group Blames ‘Leftist’ for Giffords Shooting
Associated Reddit thread (and others as well…)

Fox News Briefly Airs Giffords Vigil, Mourner Says ‘And I Say to You, Sarah Palin…’

“Second Amendment Remedies” [re: Arizona Shooting] and numerous other SDMB threads.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting sparks national debate

Sarah Palin’s website literally put crosshairs on Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other congress members

Daily Show: Arizona Shootings Reaction

Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’ Remark Raises Sordid History

President Obama in Tucson: “The Forces that Divide Us are Not as Strong as Those that Unite Us”

Fuck, I sat on this one too long and lost the passion. But I’ll be damned if I let this sit in my “drafts” box.

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More Humanitarian Whatnots in the News

November 23rd, 2010 Chuck.P No comments

Well, that thing I wrote a little bit about before has been in the news a bit, thought I might as well link to it as filler for this here blog.

It appears that the USS Iwo Jima is being used as a floating hospital to deal with the outbreak in Haiti. (Here, here).

Also, a Chinese hospital ship made the rounds a while ago. (Here)

In related health news, a bunch of healthcare reform provision took effect a while ago, and there was a bunch of hoopla about that. However, there’s no reason we needed to phase in any of the proposals of the bill, and this is just a reminder that we got not true healthcare reform, but a neutered program to line the pockets of the insurance industries. (Here)

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Woot

September 29th, 2010 Chuck.P No comments

Got my article copies today!

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Fucking Styrofoam Factory and other News

July 31st, 2010 Chuck.P No comments

That job sucked. A lot. Getting showered with molten-hot plastic is no joke. Neither is being fired, though.

On a bright spot, my article has been published! The article can be found online here. 10 Ideas: Defense and Diplomacy can be found here. The entire 10 Ideas series is here. The Roosevelt Institute is, for completeness’ sake, here.

This spawned the Publications section of my blog.

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4th of July

June 30th, 2010 Chuck.P No comments

I’ve been doing a lot of reading these days about our Founding Fathers and the ideological origins of this country. Rather than take it on the words of political blowhards, read about it yourselves in:

Edmund Morgan. The Birth of the Republic.

Bernard Bailyn. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

Pauline Maier. From Resistance to Revolution.

Michael Kammen. The Origins of the American Constitution.

Gordon Wood. Creation of the American Rupublic.

I had to read these for my class on the American Revolution. I’m reading them “lately” because I didn’t actually finish all of them when they were assigned.

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Stewart/O’Reilly: Inside the Thunderdome

February 19th, 2010 Chuck.P