Links: Uses for Tools, Disabled Feminists, Job, COIN, and more
Posted by Sappho on October 12th, 2009 filed in Blogwatch, Feminism, Peace Testimony, Quaker Practice, RIP
My young nephew has a blog. It doesn’t have any posts in it yet, but I’m sure it will soon. Go, nephew!
It May *Sound* Humorous, But Sadly It is True. PipeTobacco’s “series of very useful, and truthful definitions for a variety of common tools found in the garage of a male who enjoys thinking of himself as a fix-it man.”
A new group blog by disabled feminists.
Minimalist Money: 6 Steps to Simplify Your Financial Life.
The Nomination Thing. Abi Sutherland points out that the fact that Obama was only eleven days into his term when he got nominated isn’t all that meaningful, because, first, a huge pool of people who are allowed to make nominations nominate hundreds of different people (“That’s a big pool of nominators, many of whom (at least in the US) will have strong partisan agendas. Considering the current American political scene, I’d be willing to bet that in addition to Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin, and Clinton were all nominated.”), and, second, the people nominated are evaluated through August, and voted on in September, so the actual award, though early in Obama’s term, isn’t based on just those eleven days.
Ezra Klein on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
I had a good time making fun of Barack Obama’s Nobel prize this morning. It is undeserved. It is a bit ridiculous. But it’s a laugh in the way that finding a $900 antique chair in the attic is a laugh, or getting paid $120,000 to be a celebrity dog walker is a laugh. It’s an absurdity worth celebrating. It’s an absurdity that can help you.
During the campaign, one of the arguments for Obama’s candidacy was that his election would give us a costless shot of international goodwill….
Eve Tushnet recommends Eli Wiesel’s play The Trial of God, which recasts the Book of Job as a Purimspiel.
As a Quaker blogger, I don’t normally write about military strategy, but in this case I’ve run across an article about COIN that also offers interesting insights into Afghani culture. Via the Small Wars Journal blog, I find that Foreign Policy magazine has an interesting article on Women in COIN (II): How to do it right in Afghanistan.
Gordon. Johan Maurer’s tribute to Gordon Browne, who died the Friday before last and had previously served for years as executive secretary of Friends World Committee.