So it's rare that my worlds collide in this manner, but... one of my favorite International Politics theorists has published a Hermione/Neville fanfic on a major International Politics (IP) journal's website. And I feel it's necessary to draw my HP peeps attention to it, because it's brilliant -- especially that it was published on a .... respected ( Read more... )

In general I try not to talk TOO much about politics on here. But I’m an International Relations MA and generally work in the field, so it’s sometimes rather difficult. Not to mention I live in Washington DC. Suffice it to say that my conversations with my friends generally focus mostly on politics, even though I try to keep it off of here. ( ( Read more... )

Prince Charles delivered a fantastic speech on sustainable agriculture today at Georgetown ( Read more... )

The shutdown is teh stoopid! I was going to ramble for a while about it, but really, I can sum it up by saying -- STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!

Daniel W. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2011 117pgs.


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Since all of you have managed to write up your rally experiences, I suppose I should chime in with mine. I generally avoid all crowds and don’t go near the National Mall for any large event. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been down there for anything like this - Clinton’s second inauguration, Clinton’s second inauguration ( Read more... )

One of the days that I’m happiest to live in DC is the day of the National Book Festival. Once a year is not often enough for this wonderful day of walking around and listening to authors speak about their latest books and the writing process in general. What I like about the National Book Festival, as opposed to other book festivals is that ( Read more... )

Stacy Parker Aab, Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House New York, NY: CCCO, 2010. 292pgs.

Summary: Stacy Parker Aab was born in Detroit in 1974, the only daughter of a white Kansas farm girl and a young black Detroiter fresh from two tours of Vietnam. An excellent student, Aab gravitated toward public service and moved to ( Read more... )

One last w00t w00t for Duke!

The embedding never works for these white house videos -- they really need to fix that

As with everything else in life right now, I’m WAY behind on posting stuff that I’ve wanted to for the past couple of weeks… it’s been INSANE!

Anyway, let’s start easy, with a few links:

Obama ate at my favorite frozen custard joint. If you’re around Del Ray ever, go check it out!

Another Obama story, this one I just thought was cool, about ( Read more... )