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rfmcdonaldTime for a roundup of interesting blog postings.
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eclips1st makes an excellent post drawing on her personal experiences to explain how physical education in Canadian schools is mistaught. My experiences parallel hers--PEI was no better than Québec in this respect. Suffice it to say that no one should be surprised at rising rates of obesity and declining fitness stats in Canada, with phys ed teachers like what we've suffered.
Ronald Reagan's dead, and as one would expect there's abundant commentary.charlemagne77 comments on how Reagan's death might galvanize Republicans in the upcoming US election, while polonius makes a good point about liberals who are rejoicing in his death being functionally indistinguishable from the conservatives that they hate. Jeff, over at the Tin Man, thoughtfully reflects on his changing experience of Ronald Reagan and his presidency.
vaneramos talks about his experiences with sexual orientation. He makes some very good points.
Douglas Muir, at Halfway Down the Danube, writes about the stupidity of the restrictions on immigration from the new EU member-states to 12 of the 15 old ones. In related commentary, Abiola Lapite writes first about the failure of large-scale immigration to develop in Britain, and secondly about how anti-immigration hysteria in the United Kingdom now draws upon fairly old anti-immigrant tropes. The whole affair is almost funny.
From the ever-reliable Jonathan Edelstein, two interesting posts, one making the point that international law has to be well-founded in basic principles of jurisprudence in order to be just, the other a review of Israeli Arab author Sayed Kashua's book Dancing Arabs that goes on to consider the situation of Israeli Arabs.
Andrew Reeves notes how Stargate SG-1--from the few episodes I've seen, incidentally, an intelligent and entertaining series--doesn't deal with the aftermath of the protagonists' interventions against oppressive foreign governments off-Earth.
Ceteris Paribus shows us the European Union flag that could have been. Rem Koolhaas, that scamp.
Scott Martens makes an interesting post at a Fistful of Euros considering the situation of Arab minorities in Israel and Europe in a comparative perspective. I've posted in the comments, and Diana Moon has two contributions to the debate on her own blog.
Finally, Matthew Yglesias comes out as a pro-nuclear environmentalist. John Quiggin at Crooked Timber does a round-up of the blogospheric debate to date.
To start things off,
eclips1st makes an excellent post drawing on her personal experiences to explain how physical education in Canadian schools is mistaught. My experiences parallel hers--PEI was no better than Québec in this respect. Suffice it to say that no one should be surprised at rising rates of obesity and declining fitness stats in Canada, with phys ed teachers like what we've suffered.Ronald Reagan's dead, and as one would expect there's abundant commentary.
charlemagne77 comments on how Reagan's death might galvanize Republicans in the upcoming US election, while polonius makes a good point about liberals who are rejoicing in his death being functionally indistinguishable from the conservatives that they hate. Jeff, over at the Tin Man, thoughtfully reflects on his changing experience of Ronald Reagan and his presidency.vaneramos talks about his experiences with sexual orientation. He makes some very good points.Douglas Muir, at Halfway Down the Danube, writes about the stupidity of the restrictions on immigration from the new EU member-states to 12 of the 15 old ones. In related commentary, Abiola Lapite writes first about the failure of large-scale immigration to develop in Britain, and secondly about how anti-immigration hysteria in the United Kingdom now draws upon fairly old anti-immigrant tropes. The whole affair is almost funny.
From the ever-reliable Jonathan Edelstein, two interesting posts, one making the point that international law has to be well-founded in basic principles of jurisprudence in order to be just, the other a review of Israeli Arab author Sayed Kashua's book Dancing Arabs that goes on to consider the situation of Israeli Arabs.
Andrew Reeves notes how Stargate SG-1--from the few episodes I've seen, incidentally, an intelligent and entertaining series--doesn't deal with the aftermath of the protagonists' interventions against oppressive foreign governments off-Earth.
Ceteris Paribus shows us the European Union flag that could have been. Rem Koolhaas, that scamp.
Scott Martens makes an interesting post at a Fistful of Euros considering the situation of Arab minorities in Israel and Europe in a comparative perspective. I've posted in the comments, and Diana Moon has two contributions to the debate on her own blog.
Finally, Matthew Yglesias comes out as a pro-nuclear environmentalist. John Quiggin at Crooked Timber does a round-up of the blogospheric debate to date.
