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Category Archives: Fulbright
President Bush, FDR, and Yalta
So, after reading about President Bush’s woefully uninformed comments about FDR selling out Eastern Europe at the 1945 Yalta Conference, I figured that I, having actually done some research on Yalta and having won two awards for a paper I … Continue reading
Egads! My country…
…is going to Hell in a handbasket, and all I got was this game of South Park Republican Bingo. I’ve been aware of all of these except for the “Virginia banning private contracts between homosexuals” one. That one shocked me. … Continue reading
Are you a Republican?
Hmm, sounds about right… I am: 16% Republican. “You’re a tax-and-spend liberal democrat. People like you are the reason everyone else votes for guys like Reagan or George W.” Are You A Republican? … Continue reading
Shameless Self-Promotion
So I’m giving a talk/paper next week. It’s on Thursday 28 April 2005 at 1pm on the campus of Dublin City University (specifically in the Office of the Vice President of Research). My paper is entitled ‘A Unique and Unparalleled … Continue reading
Note to Self: Write Living Will
This “living will”, I think, captures the whole Schiavo stupidity perfectly: * In the event I lapse into a persistent vegetative state, I want medical authorities to resort to extraordinary means to prolong my hellish semiexistence. Fifteen years wouldn’t be … Continue reading
Consummatum est
So, being slightly retarded when it comes to scheduling my work habits, I agreed back in December to write a few entries for an encyclopedia that will be coming out late this year or sometime in 2006. It’s on the … Continue reading
Fulbright Perks
Just a short one. I have to get my arse in gear and finish these bloody encyclopedia entries. So I just got back from a seminar on the EU and NATO that was held in Belgium and Luxembourg. It was … Continue reading
Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy…
On my To Buy List, for when I get back to the States: What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany, an Oral History by Dr. Eric A. Johnson, a professor of mine at Central Michigan … Continue reading
It’s all about the process
Archival Tidbit for Today: My dissertation has multiple — and I mean MULTIPLE — primary sources from which I am drawing, which on a practical level means I have lots and lots of shit to look at spread all over … Continue reading