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Tenacious Muse: May 2015
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Friday, May 22, 2015. Beating a Dead Horse: The Student Disengagement Myth and Real-Life Impact. Just to poke Mark Bauerline. With a stick one more time:. As my friend Steve Saideman. Pointed out in his response to Bauerline's piece, the argument relies largely on "anecdata" - individual observations (why aren't there students lined up in the hall of the English department at UCLA? 8226; At a subsequent retirement dinner, three rec...
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Tenacious Muse: March 2015
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Monday, March 23, 2015. The Challenge of Scientific 'Controversies'. I wrote a little over a month ago about the use of the term "research". In public arguments over science. I argued at the time, and still maintain, that people often claim to have done "research" when what they really mean is that they have (very selectively) read other people's research. Of course, many of those who try to stir up "controversy" on scientific subj...
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Tenacious Muse: Religious Convictions, Public Behavior, and the Mythical Quest for Purity
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Friday, July 10, 2015. Religious Convictions, Public Behavior, and the Mythical Quest for Purity. Just because someone takes a job with the government does not mean they give up their First Amendment rights." A cake baker has apparently also decided to take his case to court. Lest he be sanctioned for discriminating against gay couples in the making of wedding cakes. The 1967 Supreme Court decision which struck down laws outlawing ...
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Tenacious Muse: It's Not the Economy, Stupid: Politics is Fundamentally about Power
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. It's Not the Economy, Stupid: Politics is Fundamentally about Power. A lot has been written (including in this blog. About the growing level of inequality in America. The phrase "the 1%" now has a lasting and universally-understood meaning, which itself is an indication of how skewed things have become. I still believe that the question of economic distribution is one of the fundamental issues of ...Unfor...
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Tenacious Muse: I Don't Get Internet Hate
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. I Don't Get Internet Hate. This started off as a casual Facebook conversation. In the course of reading the Chronicle of Higher Education. This morning, I came across this article:. How One Professor’s Tweets Got Her Fired — or So It Seemed at First. Have a very burn-the-house-down-around-your-own-ears feel to them. I just don't get. People will say: well, that's just the way the internet is. It's inhab...
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Tenacious Muse: June 2015
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. It's been a while since I've written a blog post on a silly gun meme. The internet has been filled with weightier matters of late, generating a lot of interesting and new conversations. But sooner or later, the same old stuff comes back around. Thus it was that I found this in my FB feed yesterday:. 8226; If I am threatened by someone with a hand weapon (knife, stick, etc.) farther than 8-10 feet away I ...
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Tenacious Muse: Learning from History: The Iran Deal and the Iraq War
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Learning from History: The Iran Deal and the Iraq War. I have said previously. Nor are they paid large sums of money for their conclusions. So what are these people saying? Increasingly, the voices of scholars of international conflict are repeating the same points, to whit: the "Iran nuclear deal" is the best that can be achieved and is better than all of the alternatives. David Lake. We now know, of cou...
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Tenacious Muse: Greece: Politics Not Economics Redux
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Greece: Politics Not Economics Redux. A great deal of the public bandwidth - that part not dedicated to well-deserved shout-outs to the USA Women's National Team - is being taken up with Greece and its future. This past Sunday's "No" vote took a lot of people by surprise, it seems, and has set off plenty of speculation and finger-pointing. So what Greece did, by holding its referendum, was insure that either ...
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Tenacious Muse: Learning from History Redux: The Physicists Pile On
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Learning from History Redux: The Physicists Pile On. In my last blog post. I pointed out that nearly all experts on negotiation and international conflict have piled onto one side (the supportive side) of the nuclear deal with Iran. I also noted that this has happened before (Iraq), and that we ignore this kind of expertise at our peril. Now a group of physicists has sent a very public letter. I don't expect...
