Thursday Cartoons Are a Bit Vague

Because everyone is doing Turkey day cartoons, I’m going to be a bit different, and post an oldie-but-goody that I managed to work into my African Development paper.  Yes, I am ridiculously proud of that fact.

Constructing Identities and the Public Sphere

Last week I was outed on Twitter: the rabbi’s sister called him, concerned that one of her fellow congregants (who also knows the rabbi through her (the congregant’s) husband) pulled her aside and showed her my Twitter feed.  Besides the oddity that a woman I have never met would be reading my tweets, this has implications for the rabbi, because he is the most tweeted subject in my feed.  I never refer to him by name, and mention few identifying characteristics, but with time, it would be possible to figure out who he is.  Because of me, he now has a Twitter presence, without ever having signed up for the service.  We are, for better or for worse, now linked in the public sphere, and on a scale that neither of us will be able to control.

Thursday Cartoons Are Proud, and Sad, and Grateful

Lots in the news this week regarding soldiers: the Fort Hood massacre and also Veteran’s Day.  In honor of all the brave men and women who have lost their lives, and also in remembrance of their families, Thursday Cartoons are a double feature.

Also, in case I haven’t mentioned it recently, I get almost all my cartoons from Daryl Cagle’s Political Cartoonists Index.

New Global Studies

The newest issue of New Global Studies (Vol. 3 Issue 2) is now available.  I’ve already downloaded two articles and a book review.  Enjoy!

Thursday Cartoons Did Their Civic Duty

Did you?  Good for you if you did!  Unless you voted like this guy:

 

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November

Today is Guy Fawkes Day, which I’m ok with ignoring, since he was 1. British and 2. possibly a terrorist.  But it did remind me of an entry I wrote for a blog I had before this one, We Are Publius.  I started it back while I was still involved in Citizens for Global Solutions because I wanted to write, because I specifically wanted to read the Federalist Papers and chronicle them, and because I thought it would be interesting to discuss federalism from a more… liberal perspective than the Federalist Society.  It was a pretty successful blog, at least in terms of my commitment to it, but it ended up being too narrow for my purposes, and I eventually switched to the EI.  Still, the work I did there, and with CGS, helped push me towards the work I’m doing now at Georgetown, and with D&S.com.  Maybe someday I’ll get back to it.

In the meantime, here’s the Guy Fawkes post.

Election Day, Nov. 3, 2009

It’s the first Tuesday in November, and over 30 states are having elections, which means that a lot of people need to vote.  If you have already, congratulations!  If you haven’t, find your election center at Rock the Vote’s site.  Vote!  Participate in the great polity we call the United States of America.