Month: June 2005

Contradiction of Reality

Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture has looked at the latest revisions to the GDP estimate for the first Quarter and asks:  … at what point do we cross the line from maintaining a healthy optimistic outlook to...

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Humanist Network News: Week of June 27

This is the weekly summary of the Humanist Network News (HNN). The Humanist Network News (HNN) is published every Wednesday via e-mail and the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) Web site. This diary is a slightly reformatted...

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The Spitting Image

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Jerry Lembcke examines the myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran and comes to some conclusions that extend far beyond the question of whether or not soldiers...

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