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kitt's kitchen: finally, a blog from one of my favorite humans: a fabulous writer, teacher, and drinking buddy, and (now!) aspiring chef. show her some love, why dontcha?

nepali molly: i'm going to compartmentalize, and start putting posts about my year in nepal on a new blog. wheeee.

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cocktail summer: my uncle's OTHER new blog: "...one new cocktail a day, every day, all summer. (Or until my liver gives out.)". have i mentioned how flippin' cool my uncle is?

an excellent point...

the lovely sarah k. smith of wonkette pretty much hits (at least one) argumentative nail on the head in the whole sotomayor life-experience-and-impartiality/insane-old-white-men-calling-a-distinguished-latina-jurist-a-racist kerfuffle.

"The horror, that anybody would admit that judges can only aspire to impartiality! Why, that is sort of like a journalist admitting they can only aspire to objectivity. In other words, it is a concept that absolutely enrages conservatives while it just seems like a given to other Earthlings. The point is this: the only people who can reach judicial decisions from the taint of racial or gender bias are people free from the taint of race or gender itself, which is to say, white males."

wheeee! sanity at last!

more on this later when i'm not working...

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pictures of my favorite forts: once you get past the disappointment of realizing that this is not, in fact, dedicated to the sheet, bunk bed, no girls allowed style forts, it's pretty easy to get sucked into the detailed architectural details and military histories in these well-written notes on fortresses from every corner of the world and every time period.

what would you like to learn today?: one-a those there "video blogs" all the kids are dancing to. from the man who brought you "pictures of my favorite forts", it's a testament to what a yale degree, four years teaching in a brooklyn public high school, and no felony convictions (yet!) can get you. you send in a question, and will answers it. anything at all. really. try him.

buzz, boom, and sizzle: my uncle's wicked sweet new true/slant blog on technology, pop culture, and their intersections. nepotism, wheeeee!

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graphic feminism: one of our student workers, a senior this year, started and maintained this project. crazy smart, provocative, and easily the most aesthetically pleasing blog i've linked to so far.

vogue republic: some more friends from college with eclectic tastes (as you can see from the tag list). could just as easily be called "smart people talking about interesting things". something for everyone.

schott's vocab: obviously, i don't actually know this guy, but as a kid who read used to read constantly because she didn't have friends between the ages of 9 and 13, this sort of thing just makes me tingle.


i can haz a link to ur blog?

happy 1388!

happy nowruz...from president obama?
that's right.



aaand those would be subtitles in farsi.

reaction has been mixed, but it's worth noting the contrast to bush's last nowruz message. now that's some saavy bridge-building, and culturally sensitive diplomatic manuevering circa 2000-2008...woof.

what a difference a year makes.

update: from my farsi-fluent friend june's blog, a quick rundown of iranian blogosphere reaction.

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so i just wanted to make some brief plugs for friends' blogs.
'cause why not.

argument by spaghetti: dave is so sharp, he cuts himself, sometimes. this blog is great snippets of our mutual, geeky love of all things political, mostly in the IR/security studies realm, or, as he puts it, "random thoughts about order, conflict, violence, and anything else that sticks." he keeps wanting me to post more stuff in this vein, and who knows, maybe i will.

come on into my kitchen: my friend molly and i have been known collectively as "the molly mayhems", for good reason. check out her cooking blog, which is awesome, if a little sparse lately :(

diagonal limes: kai has this really annoying habit of being excellent at whatever he turns his hand to. this includes his music blog, which trends towards the electronic and electronic-heavy rock/pop genres. he knows his shit.

encyclopedia black: for the pop culture geek in all of us, i give you jay's blog. these days, he's actually mostly posting on forcesofgeek. (best blog name ever? possibly.)

traveling light: june's semester studying abroad in amman, and then (planned) summer working in beirut. june is a stellar photographer and journalist, and all around great world citizen, so it's always worth following her adventures, which she always relays with insight and eloquence.


are we friends? do i not know you have a blog? are you one of approx. three people who will see this post? send your blog to me and i'll shamelessly plug you.