Thursday, May 18, 2006
The Original Micromanager (07:00 PM) - What does it look like when a person who has never played an instrument, never sung, and never read a note, tries to do a thorough analysis of a piece of classical music? It looks a lot like Mozart &…
Nature, Data, Man, and the Heavens in Right Rhythm (06:23 PM) - A good friend forwards the following excerpt from today’s Political Diary by John Fund, which names America’s ten most conservative cities:Americans are moving to areas they feel are a good cultural and political fit for their values, which is why…
The Da Vinci Disapointment (02:50 PM) - Peggy Noonan this morning: “I don’t really understand why we live in an age in which we feel compelled to spoof the beliefs of the followers of the great religions. Why are we doing that? Why does Hollywood consider this…
Mexico protests military and new walls on border (02:06 PM) - Reuters reports:MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will complain to the U.S. government about plans to build security fences and deploy National Guard troops along the border to curb illegal immigration, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Mexico has pushed for…
Mansfield on the Debacle at Harvard (12:02 PM) - Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield comments on Larry Summers’ ouster in the Claremont Review of Books: “It is a debacle at Harvard: a great university getting rid of its most outstanding president since James B. Conant, the only outstanding president at…
Who is Rapanos and Why Should You Care? (09:11 AM) - I see that the good folks at the Pacific Legal Foundation have launched Rapanos Blog, a web site which features running commentary on a very important case called United States v. Rapanos which will come before the Supreme Court in…
A Strange Desire to See an Interestingly-Maligned Film (09:02 AM) - I thought I might let you know that, while I wasn’t planning on seeing the Da Vinci Code film (for the same reason I didn’t read the book—no interest) I will probably now go, now that Ian McKellen has described…
House of Representatives Passes FY 2007 Budget Plan (06:49 AM) - A preliminary vote took place in Congress at one o’clock this morning on President Bush’s lean(ish) budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year. The year itself begins October 1, and a compromise by that time is not certain—making likely a…
Diversity at Princeton Poised to Increase (05:32 AM) - In response to Princeton students who conducted studies to show that diversity levels* at their school are not high enough, the university’s president, Shirley Tilghman, has announced a new invention: the vice provost for institutional equity and diversity. This position…