A guest post by Layna Mosley,* Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (*with contributions from Jeff Colgan, Beth Copelovitch, Mark Copelovitch, Artie G, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Roger Halchin, Andrew Herring , Steph Jeffries,...
The meme of the summer meets the graphic du jour:
As the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association may face cancellation due to Hurricane Isaac, there is only one thing to do: wildly speculate how APSAHungerGames would play out...
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Funny 8-bit video-game style Game of Thrones Season 1 recap via College Humor. H/T YouBentMyWookie. Warning: spoilers and crudity.
 Not to step on Brian‘s territory, but I just wanted to cross-post here something that I wanted to propose.One of the recurring themes on my blog and at the Poli Sci Job Rumor site is that of rankings. See here, here, and here for a taste of my fixation. Anyhow, I am always reminded of a simple fact when I see any political science ranking of journals, presses, departments whatever: that whenever a ranking is suggested or revised, it is always suggested by someone who benefits from the new ranking. Nobody ever proposes a ranking that puts their department lower. So, Godwin's Law--that the...
Snow day again -- I watched Al Jazeera, read up on the current US debates about whether or not (and how) to support the democratic revolution in Egypt, and then turned to watch one of my favorite episodes of Yes Minister, "A Victory for Democracy." Classic and informative -- on so many levels. The real fun starts at the 4:00 minute mark and runs for the duration: You can watch the whole episode -- parts 1 and 3 here and here. It's a great break.
Thanks to Erik Voeten, I have just discovered a fabulous blog, Better Book Titles:This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in mere seconds!Some of my other favorites from the site:blinkthe curious incident of the dog in the nighttimethe very hungry caterpillar, andthe elements of style.And both Erik and Jeff Ely have a little more to say about the political economy of...
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Courtesy of Wild Ammo.
Ah, August 15 NSF target dates! This time of year makes the image above ring truer than ever. Hat Tip to Stu Shulman.