Monthly Archives: August 2013
Mrs. Carrumba’s Black Rock City Chronicles
Note: These were originally hosted at my now defunct domain, wmoore.net, but the Way Back Machine / Internet Archive (whose founder, naturally, attends Burning Man) has them archived. Since the Man burns in four days, I thought I would post … Continue reading
I Shame, but I don’t Shun
I begin with a point that all political scientists (should) know. Grim trigger is the name for an approach to interaction with others. It involves cutting off (aka, defecting from) all future cooperation. In social terms this becomes the practice … Continue reading
You Know Who you Are and Why You are Here
For those who need an escape, may I recommend… Cookie the penguin, the tiny internet star who loves being tickled The Best of LOLcats A Place to Love Dogs Cute Animal Videos @WilHMoo
The Best Blogosphere Post by a Political Scientist
Have you read Dan Drezner and Erica Drezner joint posts at The Chronicle about how Dan handled being denied tenure (3 July 2011)? If not you should. It is, in my judgment, the high water mark, by which I mean the blog … Continue reading
A Few of my Favorites, and a Shameless Plug
Since I am getting traffic here I thought I would share some of my favorite posts. Why is Autism Rising? 7 June 2013 Poker Chips in the Classroom 8 March 2013 Morality Play? 17 June 2012 You might also want to … Continue reading
Reconstruction of Removed Post
If you are interested in the original post, try searching at: Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
Some Dimensions over which the Return to Networking is not Uniform
By my count four bloggers (see Saideman, Drezner, Voeten, and Nexon) and one person in my FB feed (Braumoeller) have displayed a depressingly tone deaf awareness to the variance in a number of dimensions that impact a political scientist’s demand … Continue reading
He is Who we Thought he is
with apologies to Dennis Green… Brian Rathbun, of Duck of Minerva, has posted an explanation for why he pulled his post “Intellectual Jailbait: Hunting for Underage Ideas at APSA,” which included this image and caption: I got that cached link … Continue reading
Dustup at the Duck: Cached Post
I am going to try to find some time to write a post “for the fellas” in the next 48 hours in response to the issue raised by a now deleted post from The Duck of Minerva. But for now … Continue reading
Flirting and Other Social Advice for Aspies
The Atlantic has a reasonable piece on aspie dating. What I found most interesting is that I learned about the PEERS Center at UCLA, and Autism Talk TV (ATTV). The UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills … Continue reading
Will Opines 