‘The Kos Approach’

University of Maryland professor Peter Levine has some interesting things to say about the liberal blogosphere in response to bloggers Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas ZĂșniga’s new book, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics: I should also note that 2006 is the perfect year for the Kos approach. The main […]

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Who Was F.W. Thomas?

I meant to post about this earlier, but was tied up in the Archives. My roommate and the DCeiver (Jason Linkins) will be reading from his new work The Taking of the Orange Line 1-2-3 with some local theater folks. See you there! THE FW THOMAS PERFORMANCES Greetings Journalist/Listings Editor/Blogger/Citizen: Thank you for your attention. […]

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Name Michigan’s Premier Secret Society!

That’s right folks, you’ve got the chance to name a secret society! According to my sources, the premier University of Michigan secret senior honor society has recently voted to abandon the name Michigamua. The change is apparently in an attempt to convince the community they have “changed” and to distance themselves from a 90+ year […]

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A Few Michigan Daily Notes

Longtime readers of this blog will know that although I had a somewhat tumultuous history with the institution on the whole I enjoyed my time at the Univeristy of Michigan’s student newspaper the Michigan Daily. One of the people I met there was Nick Woomer, whom I had the opportunity to catch up with briefly […]

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links for 2006-04-08

Foreign Policy: Economist Class Economists are full of themselves. Constitution Gardens, Washington, DC Photo of a little-visited spot on the National Mall South Capitol Street Frederick Douglass Mall A blog about a proposed mall extension on South Capitol Street in DC

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