Archive for January, 2009
2009 NTC Scholarships
What Comes Next?
I spend a lot of time wondering about “what comes next,” not so much to catch the wave, but to be inspired by what we might do in the future. Guy Kawasaki has an interview on the I Am Paddy blog about Twitter and business and connections. It’s an interesting read, but as I scrolled [...]
A Statement on Gaza
This post appeared originally on the University of Denver Interfaith Student Alliance blog: In light of the renewed conflict in the Gaza Strip, the University of Denver Interfaith Student Alliance (DU IFA) wishes to extend our condolences to those who have suffered as a result of the recent violence. Both the people of Israel as [...]
Tit for Tat
OK. Punching someone just because they hit you is not good. This isn’t just me speaking as a (more or less) pacifist. Preemption is an even more dangerous game, as we have found with our Mesopotamian excursion. News this past week makes me think that we earthlings still haven’t figured these things out. In the [...]
Israel, Gaza, and Graffiti
As I biked up onto campus this cold January morning, I found a very interesting bit of chalk-drawing next to the library: I also took an aerial shot for dramatic effect, as seen below. I’ll update this post when they pressure-wash it off the sidewalk. politics, graffiti, #israel, #gaza
Spines and Pages and Words and Phrases, pt. 2
I went home for Christmas and set myself to organizing my old books. I brought home two boxes of older political science texts from Denver, so I managed to at least make a small dent at my apartment. Looking through my room back home, though, made me want to reconsider the entire endeavor. There was, [...]
Spines and Pages and Words and Phrases, pt. 1
It’s been a long time coming, I can say that much. After years of wanton book collection, my “library” has swelled to such a size that I am forced to keep it in three separate locations. My apartment in Denver holds around 400 or so books – these are good ones that I have to [...]
