Yesterday was one of those long drawn out days. Press conferences were called and then no one showed up. And although the results were presented to the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on Monday, results were not released to the public until nearly 9 p.m. in...
The news is a bit grim today. For the third day this week, 2000 (well, depending on your source, from a few hundred to 3000) Haitians have taken to the streets in protest of the elections, calling for the arrest of Preval for fraud, and...
I'm being a bit lazy today and am posting a blog post that i originally wrote for our departmental blog - but it fit so nicely with a previous post in November, Inequality and Things that i couldn't let it languish when it continues a...
Today i was asked to look over a blog post on our departmental website, and in typical fashion, got completely distracted following the data down the rabbit hole. The blog, itself, is an overview of an article, What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us, in The...
I participated in Twysteria today. I think i just made that word up, but in keeping with Twitter vernacular, i think it fits rather nicely.I awoke early in a panic, with CLR James hanging over my head with the promise of some Paul Gilroy and...