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Liberal Japonicus 
by liberal japonicus I posted about Ezra Klein’s piece entitled Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way and Coates’ reply. Well, Klein had Coates on his podcast. I’ll write more about it in the comments, (and thanks to GftNC in the comments, here is a gift link, thank you!) but you are welcome to … Read more
by liberal japonicus (image: cartoon by Paul Noth available at the Conde Nast store, but also check out his site at www.paulnoth.com) Working on the archive, the Middle East was unsurprisingly a running theme, and there was quite a number of bytes spilled on Iran. So when I noticed this Atlantic article about Iran by … Read more
by liberal japonicus An open thread to allow you to talk about the current political mess(es). CNN posted this article “Kamala Harris has a five-word response to the Comey indictment“, but I’ll be damned if I can find the 5 words, though I suppose it is possible that it is the phrase that begins “are … Read more
by liberal japonicus Trying to post little bits for the next month or so to keep the blog going, and I thought of morceau, which is cognate with the English word morsel, and I thought about Saint-Saëns’ horn composition Morceau de concert, which you can enjoy from the youtube video at the bottom where Anneke … Read more
by liberal japonicus If you have an interest in the mathematics of knots, like I do, this Quanta piece might interest you. But more importantly, if you have an interest of unexpected juxtapositions of language, this paragraph from the piece is just up your alley. “I have got so thoroughly on one groove,” he wrote … Read more
by liberal japonicus All of you may have things to say about this.
by liberal japonicus As a Japanese-American, I’ve always had an intense interest in the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII. While I don’t want to be history-splaining to anyone here, there are a lot of wrinkles to it that people who are generally familiar with the internment may not know. A list off the top of … Read more
by liberal japonicus I was going to make the title ‘This is not an I/P post’, but I’m probably a bit safer using a call out to the Monty Python Bruces sketch, which is here (WordPress makes it very easy to add youtube videos) But on to the grist. From the Grauniad about the new … Read more
by liberal japonicus This NYTimes youtube video about the Kirk memorial actually made me feel ill. In response to “What made you decide to come out today?” one man answered. This is a historical moment. This was a Martin Luther King Jr. in our day that was essentially assassinated for his free speech and this … Read more
by liberal japonicus Archive work continues apace, and questions arise. Specifically, one of the founders, along with Moe Lane and von, was a Katherine R, however, it seems that second Katherine later started blogging. Some internal information point to two different Katherines, but I’m not really positive. The first Katherine [R] spent a good bit … Read more