Wide Open Spaces
My friend Damon Chetson has informed me that the Goldwater Institute, for which he is now vice president, is looking for people to mosy out west, hunker down, and set matters aright. Or something like that. They’re looking for an economist, a writer, and “someone versed in media relations” (which, really, doesn’t sound very Arizonan). The job openings are listed on their fancy new web site. Tell ‘em “Tom” sent ya.
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Gnarly! One of the oldest living organisms on the planet
Slate has a nice piece on a biologist who, like our friend pictured above, is rooting for immortality. That reminded me of my friends the Extropians.
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“Ama-gi” (the lower word), the first known written expression of the idea
of freedom, from an inscription found in the city
of Lagash — Telloh in contemporary Iraq
I just finished and sent off for translation a list of principles on constitutional democracy and a corresponding Powerpoint presentation for my presentations to Iraqis. Boiling down the principles to two pages was a useful project and gathering images that Iraqis would recognize and appropriate as their own was a challenge. After the documents have been gone over by a few other people, I may post them. (Or I may wait until after I get back.)
The Great Mosque of Samarra, built between 847 and 851 under the caliphate of
al-Mutawakkil, is a widely recognized monument in Iraq
“Ama-gi” (the lower word), the first known written expression of the idea
of freedom, from an inscription found in the city
of Lagash — Telloh in contemporary Iraq
I just finished and sent off for translation a list of principles on constitutional democracy and a corresponding Powerpoint presentation for my presentations to Iraqis. Boiling down the principles to two pages was a useful project and gathering images that Iraqis would recognize and appropriate as their own was a challenge. After the documents have been gone over by a few other people, I may post them. (Or I may wait until after I get back.)
The Great Mosque of Samarra, built between 847 and 851 under the caliphate of
al-Mutawakkil, is a widely recognized monument in Iraq
“Ama-gi” (the lower word), the first known written expression of the idea
of freedom, from an inscription found in the city
of Lagash — Telloh in contemporary Iraq
I just finished and sent off for translation a list of principles on constitutional democracy and a corresponding Powerpoint presentation for my presentations to Iraqis. Boiling down the principles to two pages was a useful project and gathering images that Iraqis would recognize and appropriate as their own was a challenge. After the documents have been gone over by a few other people, I may post them. (Or I may wait until after I get back.)
The Great Mosque of Samarra, built between 847 and 851 under the caliphate of
al-Mutawakkil, is a widely recognized monument in Iraq
“Ama-gi” (the lower word), the first known written expression of the idea
of freedom, from an inscription found in the city
of Lagash — Telloh in contemporary Iraq
I just finished and sent off for translation a list of principles on constitutional democracy and a corresponding Powerpoint presentation for my presentations to Iraqis. Boiling down the principles to two pages was a useful project and gathering images that Iraqis would recognize and appropriate as their own was a challenge. After the documents have been gone over by a few other people, I may post them. (Or I may wait until after I get back.)
The Great Mosque of Samarra, built between 847 and 851 under the caliphate of
al-Mutawakkil, is a widely recognized monument in Iraq
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