A lot of news today about the development of the Iraqi Constitution, and the NYT magazine breaks down the difficulties: For the Iraqis, the elephant in the room is the relationship between government and religion: can Iraq be a democracy and an Islamic state at the same time? When I worked as an adviser to …
Archives for July 2005
Could Capito Beat Byrd?
Via fellow WV Blogger Don Surber, this Charleston Gazette piece: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., could be in serious trouble if Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., challenges him for his Senate seat, according to a national columnist and pundit. “If the Republicans get Capito, I think Byrd could very well lose,” said Eleanor Clift, a …
Marketing Research
This is fascinating: Two marketing professors — Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School and Elizabeth Gelfland Miller of Boston College — have conducted some experiments to try to figure out what sort of effect mysterious names of colors and flavors have on consumers. They divided such names into categories: typical color names might be either …
A Badge of Pride
Josh Trevino writes that we should treat our eviction from Uzbekistan as a badge of pride.
Everything Whedon
First, the new Serenity trailer is up. Check it out. Second, I am finished Angel Season 5, and I am furious it got cancelled.
Empty Promises
Fabulous. Remember the donor conference held in 2003 that garnered all the promises of international aid? How much financial aid for Iraq was pledged at the October 23-24 Madrid donor conference? About $33 billion in grants and loans, almost two-thirds of it from the United States. The widely used estimate of Iraq’s reconstruction needs is …
Originalists and the ‘Other Amendments’
Thousands of miles of column inches have been writen on the topic of originalism, and the question of whether or not Judge Roberts shares this perspective is receiving the same voluminous treatment. Wikipedia describes originalism in this manner: The term originalism refers to two distinctly different ideas: One version, known as original intent, is the …