Shippensburg is in the news today — in the Washington Post even.
My Home Town
June 22nd, 2009Dearth of Posts
May 6th, 2009I know there have been very few posts of late, but I’ve been working full time, and I just finished up the last of my grad classes (after the internship this summer, I’ll be done with my Master’s degree). Of course I’ve had my hands full with teaching, but unfortunately yesterday one of my students had his hands full with me:
Police detain Carlisle student after fight
A 16-year-old boy was taken to Carlisle Police Department after he grabbed a Carlisle High School teacher by the throat briefly at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to Carlisle police.
The teacher, a 26-year-old man, had been trying to break up a fight between students when the incident happened, police said. The student was released to the custody of his mother “pending further action by police.”
Kinda Scary Government Budget
February 15th, 2009This really doesn’t look very good.
Interesting Observation
February 1st, 2009This is something I’ve thought for a long time. The “anti-establishment” crowd became the establishment long ago. One nice thing — if we start getting really popular Republican punk bands, they’ll stay underground: the media establishment won’t touch them.
Free Speech In Russia
February 1st, 2009Another journalist has been assassinated in Russia. This comes at the same time as Bolsheviks are protesting in the streets. This doesn’t look like a good sign for the stability of Russia. Much as I’d like to see journalist-assassinating pseudo-democratic totalitarians like Putin out of office, a return to communism doesn’t seem like the way to go.
I Hate to Say I Told You So…
February 1st, 2009… Ok, actually I don’t. Somehow this reflects exactly what many people were saying about Obama’s foreign policy before he was even elected.
Quantum Craziness
January 16th, 2009Science’s latest crazy idea that may be supported by the facts: we may be part of a giant hologram.
Repercussions of World War 2
January 9th, 2009It’s hard to comprehend just how massive an event the Second World War was. There’s a fascinating story here about one man still trying to come to grips with his past, and how his early life was completely shaped by the Nazi conquest.
Cool Picture
January 9th, 2009Regardless of what it really was, this picture from the Telegraph is pretty cool looking:
"Searchlights converge on an unidentified object over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942. The bright blobs around the flashes are anti-aircraft shells exploding."
Russian Power Politics
December 30th, 2008It seems there’s a bit of a struggle behind the scenes in the Kremlin, as Medvedev seems to be signalling that he wants to actually be in charge in his own job. Putin will have to keep an eye on him, which will probably be a good thing for everyone else, as the two factions spar behind the policy. While both of them seem to belong to the same highly nationalist mindset, Medvedev (without Putin’s KGB background) seems to be the one with more palatable methods. I wondered about this during the Georgian crisis, when Medvedev seemed to be trying to end the war, and seemed rather irked by the fact that he was having trouble getting the country to go the way he said. While that would be good evidence that he’s the more moderate one of the two, it would also seem to indicate that Putin has a stronger grasp on the reins.
Of course, this could also all be posturing to mislead western observers into thinking a rift exists when one really doesn’t.