Links I found interesting for 11-09-2012
- No Georgian dolphin?
Of sea-pigs and loanwords. (Do read comments too.)
(tags: linguistics ) - How Irish women lost political power
Not convinced by explanation that feminist gains were reversed due to factional conflict within the wider revolutionary movement. I would eant to see evidence that Republicanism had really internalized feminism in the first place. My suspicion is that, like the Labour movement, politicized women were convenient allies for the leadership of SF (and later CnaG/FF) on the way up, and equally conveniently discarded once power had been achieved.
(tags: history ireland ) - Greece's Pampered Armed Forces Revisited
Judy Dempsey rebutts her critics.
(tags: eu greece ) - The Bush White House Was Deaf To 9/11 Warnings
Iraq was more important.
(tags: waronterror )