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By Colin Rule on March 7, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Rory Stewart in today's Times: "...I find that donor proposals encourage us to emphasize the negative aspects of local society. Many of our criticisms reflect our deep assumptions about citizenship, management and the state.
By Colin Rule on March 7, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Hey, I just got chosen to be one of the featured blogs at Mediate.com. Cool!
Check it out. There's some great mediation blogs linked from there, including Diane's Online Guide to Mediation and Dina's Mediation Mensch. Read more about Featured blog on Mediate.com
By Colin Rule on March 7, 2007 at 10:38 am
The Capitol Steps, DC a cappella legends, with a great routine on the red/blue divide: YouTube video. Read more about Could use some moderation
By Colin Rule on March 2, 2007 at 4:50 pm
There's an ADR-related game of blog tag going on out there around "how I started my mediation practice." Tammy started it, I think, then Diane tagged me. I never want be the one to want to drop the baton, so here goes.
By Colin Rule on February 21, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Glenn Smith sets the record straight on Brooks: "Isn't it a bit transparent when those who hold or seek power tell us that their power is all that will save us from our natural degeneracy?"
By Colin Rule on February 21, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Matt Tabbibi makes some interesting points on Alternet: "If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family... would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years. The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion."
"...the heirs to the Mars candy corporation... will receive about $11.7 billion in tax breaks. That's more than three times the amount Bush wants to cut from the VA budget ($3.4 billion) over the same time period.
By Colin Rule on February 21, 2007 at 3:13 pm
From a posting by Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Foreign Policy in Focus: "...after my years in the army... I have come to the conclusion that warfare is so utterly destructive that, contrary to western religious traditions that go back to the 4th century, no war is 'just.'"
By Colin Rule on February 20, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Patricia Cohen in the Times: "There was a time when ... points of trivia might arise at dinner or over drinks and lead to a brain-racking long debate or an unsettled and angry standoff. But now... hand-held wireless devices can immediately settle disputes over points of fact."
By Colin Rule on February 20, 2007 at 1:53 pm
David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of the belief in natural human goodness."
By Colin Rule on February 20, 2007 at 7:59 am
By Colin Rule on February 14, 2007 at 5:43 pm
It's clear he understands the importance of healing the divide: "...it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the smallness of our politics. America's faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. Read more about From Obama's announcement
By Colin Rule on February 14, 2007 at 5:36 pm
From an interesting article in the Times by Patricia Cohen: "For anyone who assumes political choices rest on a rational analysis of issues and self-interest, the notion that preference for a candidate springs from the same source as the choice of a color scheme can be disturbing. But social psychologists assume that all beliefs, including political ones, partly arise from an individual’s deep psychological fears and needs: for stability, order and belonging, or for rebellion and novelty. Read more about Politics and personality
By Colin Rule on February 14, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Washington Post blogger William Arkin created quite a dust up as a result of his post from last week suggesting that the troops should be grateful that we respect them. After fighting back against a tide of more than 1,500 angry responses, many going after him personally, he eventually had to throw in the towel and turn off comments on his blog. Read more about William Arkin on Demonization and Responsibility
By Colin Rule on February 8, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Jonah Goldberg, on the NRO website: "...I'm basically burnt out on the smash-mouth stuff. When I criticize younger lefty bloggers for their excesses, I get a lot of "Hello Mr. Kettle, pot's calling on line one" grief. That's all fair to a point. But the basic fact is I don't do that stuff very much any more because it's cliched and boring to me... Read more about Grappling with the other side's best ideas, not their worst
By Colin Rule on February 7, 2007 at 2:42 pm
There's quite a bit of hullabloo on the internets today about two bloggers hired by the Edwards campaign to reach out to the online world, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. The background is reported in the NYT and by AP. Latest word from Salon is that the two have now been fired. Read more about Bloggers "doing what bloggers do"
