WRT Iran, I do not have a clear sense that he would have favored use of nuclear weapons and, absent that, there are few sure solutions available. He would have enough sense to see the logistical and terrain problems involved in a ground assault and would have been difficult for the military to bulldoze, like they do Obama.  "Bomb, bomb, bomb,  bomb, bomb Iran" is likely what he would have LIKED to do, but not necessarily what he would have done. Palin is another thing and with her as CIC, all bets are off.

Also, McCain received the biggest burn of his political career over campaign contributions as part of the "Keating Five." He understands the problems with campaign finance on a visceral level and has recent experience there.  He would be more likely than Obama to turn over the apple cart on that one. But the spectre of Palin and the baggage of the now base of the Republican Party would have prevented me from ever voting for McCain.

I don't regret my vote or recant my reservations about Obama. I would have preferred almost any of the primary alternatives, including Clinton, but especially Edwards, then Biden, Kucinich, or Dodd. My wife never trusted Edwards, with good reason it seems. I just thought we chose the smoothest candidate but also the one least likely to challenge the status quo at a time when challenging the status quo was what was most needed.  A president who would lead a successful take down, wind-up and dismemberment of the TBTF banks and a reconstitution of a meaningful regulation and reform of the financial sector could hardly have a downside that would outweigh his accomplishments there.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

Someone really needs to tell her that Oprah makes way more money than Obama does. And with Oprah quitting her daytime show, there's a perfect opportunity for Palin. She can bring the crazy-Beck format to daytime talk for all the disgruntled conservatives at home.

increasing rate of STIs in people 45 plus

A further data point PROVING that there is still a small hope for civilization (assuming that STI means Standardized Tumescent Insertion), that old folk can enjoy life's pleasures somewhat unabated.

We now return you to your writing.

Skennah Kowa

Something like:

"In the article X, sex education is mention as personal when it comes to the sons [] but as social policy when it comes to []. If we contrast the indivualistic discourse of the sons life with the collective discourse in the social policy setting, we can clearly see that the author employs a [] discourse. This is problematic with the subject at hand as []

On the other hand in article Y...

And then in Z...

And ZZ...

When we lok at these together we can see that while the RED is used when dealing with group A, the MUD is reserved for group B. Interestingly enough the SID  does not appear in any of the compared articles. One would have thought that it would have been a useful approach, especially in article Y!"

(Given the topic at hand my stab in the dark would be to use these a lot:
RED - the re-distributionist discourse
MUD - the moral-underclass discourse
SID - the social-integrationist discourse)

And then when you are finished at 03:45, set your computers clock to 23:57 and email away. If the receiver is anything like my professors they will think it was sent that time as that is the timestamp your computer will give it.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

Can suggest the following procedure:

1.  Abstract a commonality in your sources

2.  State why this commonality IS a commonality

3.  State why this commonality is important

4.  Offer a social/political resolution of the commonality based on the professor's or lecturer's biases

;-)


By popular request ... Madness takes it's toll. Have exact change ready.

And if there's a constituency, doesn't there have to be an MP? Say, "the Hono(u)rable Member for 45+ STIs"?

... That wasn't by any chance the constituency in which you were hoping to be nominated, was it?


There's no such thing as original sin - Elvis Costello

trebling of HIV levels in Swindon

That one's easy.

Have you ever been to Swindon?