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)
Got my article copies today!
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.
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.