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Sunday, December 31, 2006

A year in the life of the blog 


Ann Althouse celebrates the New Year by selecting her favorite post from each month of the year. She links back to the post that "represents what I consider to be the essence of what I'm trying to do here." Professor Althouse apparently has a far greater blog-awareness than I do, since I wouldn't have a clue what the "essence" of this blog is. However, that doesn't make it any less a good idea. Herewith, my favorite posts of the year, and begging your forgiveness in advance for picking more than one post per month. [OK, it turned out to be more like five posts per month...]

I'll put up a month or two of links at a time this evening (watching the Bears play a terrible game against the Packers) and tomorrow, so check back here for updates.

January

Sex in Suburbia (Cassandra)

The ethics of journalism: A proposal for reform

Sam Alito, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, and the Class of 1957's 25th reunion

All my left thoughts

The Pakistan strike and the defeatist joy of left wing blogs

February

The garbage plate (Charlottesvillain)

Reconciling rights and identity politics: What do Denmark, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Northwestern University have in common?

The Gorebot: attacking America from the fountainhead of jihad

Realigning tolerance: Our options in the collision between free speech and Islam

March

The political and geopolitical significance of 'foreign fighters' in Iraq

India and Pakistan - The War That Did Not Happen (Cardinalpark)

Regarding Mohammed and the prospects for "respect"

The Muslims of Invention

George P. Shultz and the origins of the Bush Doctrine

The Iran Crisis: A "roundtable" discussion at Princeton University

April

Flag waiving, political speech, and the censorship of violence

My great-grandfather's alleged subtext

The FDA, the Tysabri conundrum, and our cultural incapacity for single payer healthcare

Comedy Central and the violence veto

Gasoline remains a great value

Madeleine Albright speaks at Princeton: Fourteen Points about democratization

May

Louis Rukeyser, RIP (Charlottesvillain)

Civil War? (Cardinalpark)

America (Cardinalpark)

John Edwards and the Democrats' plague of lawyers

June

The idiocy of virginity pledges

Azerbaijan, the Clinton administration, the non-fortunes of Exxon stockholders, and the dangerous myth that America wants to "grab the oil"

Pessimism, Quagmires and a Microphone (Cardinalpark)

Europe and Muslims: The shrinking pool of neutrals

Annotating the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey

Selective human rights outrage and asymmetrical warfare (Cassandra)

The Giant Panda Post

July

Woe for Roe (Charlottesvillain)

Wither the "democratization strategy"?

War reductionism

Splitting Syria from Iran and the strategy deficit

How "proportionality" destroys the best chance for peace

Backward culpability and radical chic

August

Human Rights Watch and false moral equivalence

The curse of high expectations (Cardinalpark)

The NSA case: What ought to be done to discover the dots?

Our system, or Sweden's?

September

John Dean on Donald Rumsfeld: Trust Nixon!

Khatami vs. Ahmadinejad

Managing Global Images

Cracking down on skinny people

Infantalizing Muslim "rage"

Feigning a blind eye: Categorizing proxy wars and legitimizing the counterattack

October

2007 in Iraq (Cardinalpark)

George W. Bush's "admission" and the Tet analogy

Pictures from Princeton-Harvard weekend

Book Review: America Alone

Prince Turki al-Faisal on American "standing"

November

The annual Garcia y Vega cigar

Iran: Plus ça change

What would an American nationalized healthcare system look like?

Unexploded ordnance found in London (Charlottesvillain)

The New York Times and driving regulation

The crock that is "shareholder democracy"

December

"Realism" and the containment of Iran

Ethics in journalism: Taking the Columbia J-School challenge

A short note on "Big Pharma" and popular resentment

Prospects for peace around Israel and the role of the United States

Adirondack Light: Christmas Eve edition


2 Comments:

By Blogger Cassandra, at Thu Jan 04, 06:29:00 PM:

What a nest idea. My youngest boy surprised the heck out of me over Christmas break by asking me to assemble my "best work" (huh???). Apparently he wants to print it up.

I don't even know where to start. I guess this is as good a way as any. Thanks for the idea. And for kindly allowing me to post here at TigerHawk. That was one of the highlights of 2006.  

By Blogger Cassandra, at Thu Jan 04, 06:30:00 PM:

nest... Can you tell I'm exhausted again?

Try nice :)  

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