Author: ejmw

Just caught this in Robert Novak’s column in today’s Chicago Sun Times: Adding to the tension is word from court sources that ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist also will announce his retirement before the week...

I am not a professor of Middle Eastern studies.  I’m not even a student.  All I know about the Middle East I’ve learned through reading articles online and watching shows on TV, most of them in the past 8...

SusanHu wrote a little somethin-somethin’ on this a couple weeks back, but as it’s coming up, I’ve decided to create a diary about it (also thanks to some gentle prodding by SlackerInc). From the front page of...

This past Friday, it was my great honor and privilege to attend the wedding ceremony of a good friend of mine (for those who may have read my first diary entry, yep, it’s one of my fraternity brothers).  He is a very...

In a comment on the ‘Getting to know us’ thread, I mentioned that I am a ‘frat boy’ (preferrably ‘fraternity man’, but I’m not too sensitive in regards to terminology).  While I...