Monthly Archives: April 2013
A Black Rock City Moment on Campus
Walking to my office this morning I ran across a microcosm of Burning Man, here at Florida State. To tag this as a Burning Man moment is a bit unfair, as these moments do not originate in that event. Rather, … Continue reading
Garland Turns Ignorant Media Coverage Inward
Riffing on Sara Kendzior’s post on Terrorism and Ethnicity in the American Media, Eric Garland imagined what a foreign media report written in that style might look like covering a killing in, say, Alabama or Georgia. This is what he … Continue reading
What Obama’s Failure has Wrought
The Weather Underground The news media gets more online hits, higher ratings, etc. when it sells fear. Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber) So we get news stories, like those documented by Sarah Kendzior, that “link,” without evidence, alleged perpetrators to shadowy … Continue reading
Why Eat Breakfast at McDonald’s? It’s the Stories.
A woman wearing heals, a black sport coat, no skirt, but lime green undies, and rocking three curlers in her hair that have unrolled and bob at the end of her locks, threatening to break loose and scatter on the … Continue reading
Campaigning for Arnold
I am a bit overcommitted with travel, teaching, blah, blah, blah, so in the interest of having some content, I am linking to a pre-weblog post I wrote back in 2003 explaining my brief foray into campaigning for Arnold Schwarzenegger when … Continue reading
Excitement about GDELT and some Personal Intellectual History
GDELT (Global Data on Events, Location and Tone), a new, freely available, global events data base covering the years 1979 til recent is tearing up the interwebs among social science types (e.g., see Foreign Policy here and A Dart Throwing Chimp here). … Continue reading
PVGlance Wins “Most Promising New Blog” for 2013 by the International Studies Association
Back in January of 2012 I found the following email from Erica Chenoweth in my In Box: Dear Will, I hope this email finds you well, and that 2012 is off to a good start for you. Barb Walter and I … Continue reading
Will Opines 