A Web Undone 2I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light. I fooled them in this way for three years without their finding it out. The Odyssey, Book XIX, trans. Samuel ButlerThe Lawyers Crusade - NYTimes.com- June 3, 2008 The New York Times reports on how Pakistan's lawyers are confronting its generals, and the United States is backing the generals.http://www.williamsonday.com/archives/2008/06/the-lawyers-cru.html Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori- June 3, 2008 Reflecting on the op-ed of the quintessential chicken-hawk William Kristol, who sat out the Vietnam War at Harvard, in which he criticizes Barack Obama for not listing the military as a form of national service, I am inclined to think that maybe we as a culture have gotten it wrong all these years. Being a soldier is a dirty, dangerous, and, yes, necessary job. For that, our troops deserve our respect and support. So do our garbagemen, sewer cleaners, cannery workers, meat packers,...http://www.williamsonday.com/archives/2008/06/dulce-et-decoru.html Teacher Leads Survivor Style Class Vote to Banish Autistic Five-Year-Old from School- June 1, 2008 Slate has published the police report on a teacher-led vote to banish an autistic five-year-old from his elementary school class.http://www.williamsonday.com/archives/2008/05/teacher-leads-s.html |