May 2009
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So, after *that* series, do the Celtics have anything in the tank for Round Two?
My sense is that they can’t possibly survive another series, especially without KG. That said, if they’re running on adrenaline and jump out to a 2-0 lead in the second round, I’ll have to edit this post so that no one knows how wrong I was.
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Watching golf with the volume off, listening to the Metric album. Nothing like Tiger Woods tearing it up to the tune of Emily Haines.
Undoubtedly, the thing I love most about Metric is that - almost as soon as I posted this - @MetricBand started following me on Twitter. Pretty sure that Emily Haines is still doing all of the updates herself. Now, if I can convince her to add Omaha to their tour,...
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Juggling two co-authored papers at the moment: editing the reconciliation in Rwanda paper now, writing about Tocqueville and Twitter later.
My sense is that these things are both interesting. They are my only forays into co-authoring with students and they seem to be going pretty well. I’m hoping to get both out to journals before I leave for the wedding in a couple of weeks, especially...
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If you like talking about political science and related topics, you’ll want to check out/tell others about @tweet_academy for #followfriday.
I’m still pretty excited about this concept and there seems to be some buy-in right now, which I hadn’t really expected until the new academic year starts in August. The real question, now, is how to move conversations from Twitter to the...
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Juvenile offender Delara Darabi was executed in Iran this morning, despite outcry from hr orgs: http://tinyurl.com/cqa7ks (via @amnesty).
Chalk up another win for Twitter, despite the obvious human rights catastrophe inherent in this post. Of course, no one should be surprised that Iran executes juvenile offenders - or that the country does so in secret. But what’s surprising is that no...