Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Kenny Byerly has alerted me that he has a piece out in the new, Star Wars-themed Mad Magazine, illustrated by none other than Mort Drucker!
Thank goodness that Italy is out of the World Cup. Now that France, Italy, and Mexico are all out of contention, maybe people in my house will go to sleep at a decent hour.
I wondered whether The Daily Show would hire me, and visited their jobs listings. Probably not. Paulina: "You could go to New York and try to make it big." Me: "Oh, that's so twentieth-century."
The Daily Show replied to my fan letter! They sent me a package with a Daily Show pen and pencil and keychain and stress toy and hat! I'm wearing my Daily Show hat right now, …
Done with the midterm. A guy named Richard D. Anderson wrote an article about "The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics." It's full of discourse this and game theory that. It's so 90s. Leonard suggested …
I've decided that totalitarianism, being a form of security, is a process, not a product. As such, "Is This System Totalitarian Or Not" is a question that sort of misses the point. Did this system …
Done with Democracy From Scratch, which was the big hurdle because it's a book, not a bunch of easy-to-skim articles that basically give you the gist in the first page. In Democracy From Scratch, Fish …
I can't believe that Scott Shuger is dead. Why do women blow the whistle more often than men these days? Leonard had a great idea and implemented it very well: Probing the Collective Unconscious. I …
In the nongraphical web browser lynx, if you use the left-arrow key to access the previously viewed web page but there is no previous web page, you get this message: "You are already at the …
Recent scary terror-paranoia dream: Sirens go off. People are terrified. I'm trying to flee. People direct me to a shelter. We're going into this gray structure. I catch sight of a sign on the wall: …