by Charles Cameron | Jul 31, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not exactly an enthusiast of negative campaigning ] . I’ve been having a series of conversations with my friend Tom Merino recently, and a couple of days ago he suggested two quotes to me for comparison: I’ve formatted them in...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 5, 2015 | Monitor
[marked up by Lynn C. Rees] The States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, to all whom it may concern, do by these Presents send greeting: As it is apparent to all that a prince is constituted by God to be ruler of a people, to defend them from...
by zen | Mar 15, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Adam Elkus had a nice post on the sound and fury over the open letter by 47 Republican senators to the government of Iran, asserting Congressional prerogatives regarding contractual relations with in foreign powers:...
by Charles Cameron | May 18, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with an extended riff on the apocalyptic significance of Chernobyl, as mentioned by the Idaho curmudgeon, Walt Bayes ] . This may be the most remarkable piece of political theater I have ever seen It’s the debate between four...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 24, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — oh, the sheer delightful drudgery of finding patterns everywhere ] . I’ll start this post, as I did the previous one to which this is a sort of appendix, with a (deeply strange, tell me about it) example of the… Matrioshka...
