Re-Reading My Weblog: October 2005
In October 2005 I was surprised to see a member of the Bush family--the smart one, Jeb ("John Ellis"--but what a Connecticut Yankee is doing choosing a nickname and thus calling himself after a rebel cavalry general who spent his time in Pennsylvania catching free Blacks to sell as slaves, rather than being Lee's army's eyes, is beyond me)--simply failing to get the point of what his father was saying on the tennis court when George H.W. Bush would threaten to "unleash Chiang":
- Unleash Chiang Kai-Shek http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/unleash_chiang_.html 2005-10-06
Teaching ramped up:
- Syllabus Part II: Economics 101b Fall 2005 http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/syllabus_part_i.html 2005-10-16
- Economics 210a 2005-2006: First Half Syllabus [DRAFT] http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/economics_210a__1.html 2005-10-13
I talked about the mixed record of Alan Greenspan at the Fed since 2000:
- Grading the Greenspan Fed http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/grading_the_gre.html 2005-10-04
The deeply corrupt Washington press corps continued to play Dingbat Kabuki:
- It's Another Game of Dingbat Kabuki! (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?) http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/its_another_gam.html 2005-10-24
- Dingbat Kabuki! (Yet Another Why-Oh-Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? Edition) http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/dingbat_kabuki_.html 2005-10-17
- More Dingbat Kabuki! (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? New York Times Edition) http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/more_dingbat_ka.html 2005-10-19
- Jodi Wilgoren of the New York Times: Views on Age of Earth Differ (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?) http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/why_oh_why_cant_1.html 2005-10-10
I found myself increasingly convinced that situations like the one we were in were what the founders had designed the impeachment process for. And it seemed to me that somebody should say that, for it was true:
- The Wall Street Journal Defends Libby http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/the_wall_street.html 2005-10-30
- The Perjury of I. Lewis Libby http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/the_perjury_of_.html 2005-10-29
- NOC NOC http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/noc_noc.html 2005-10-26
I found another anthropologist who appeared to have gone off the deep end--James Ferguson in his study of Zambia:
- A Lost Teachable Moment... http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/a_lost_teachabl.html 2005-10-25
And I meditated on Red Army casualties during World War II:
- A Meditation on Twentieth-Century Political-Military History http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/a_meditation_on.html 2005-10-02
The feel-bad piece of the month is the scale of the sacrifice made by the Red Army to defeat the Nazis:
- A Meditation on Twentieth-Century Political-Military History http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/a_meditation_on.html 2005-10-02
The feel-good piece of the month is... Jeb Bush:
- Unleash Chiang Kai-Shek http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/unleash_chiang_.html 2005-10-06
