Greg Brown
Why Howard Dean is awesome →
thenation.com
aka. how his fifty-state strategy fundamentally shaped the dynamics of this year’s presidential (and primary) race.
February 2008
Clinton lawsuit could muddy Texas caucuses →
centredaily.com
please oh please oh please don’t let this happen
Anatomy of a campaign rally →
ruralvotes.com
From The Field, my favorite blog about the presidential primary season.
A fantastic interview with Michael Lewis →
themorningnews.org
Lewis authors books on sports, economics, and where the two sometimes combine.
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Zoo as Sculpted Landscape →
bldgblog.blogspot.com
I’d be all for his suggestion later in the essay that college campuses receive the same treatment. K-State needs a waterfall.
“The law of unintended consequences is what happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system.”
—Tyler Cowen in a post on The Law of Unintended Consequences
Parks as Giant Environmental Systems →
pruned.blogspot.com
A park operating in Pennsylvania for 15 years has naturally treated toxic water drainoff from abandoned mines, shunting the treated water into wetlands that further cleanse it before it travels further downstream.
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford
“It was like watching behavior modification take place in real-time. She was punished for going negative and rewarded for being uplifting, and you could watch her moving toward the light as the night wore on.”
—RJ Eskow in a fantastic post-mortem of tonight’s debate
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