Socrates & King

As the saying goes, “Socrates died for your academic freedom.” How about the freedom to think for oneself? To question authority? Makes me feel even worse for being such a slothful blogger. (The Committee to Protect Journalist’s) “10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger” also identifies a number of countries in the Middle East and [...]

Olympia Snowe – our gal from Sparta! “It’s my ethnic heritage, Spartan side, that continues to fight,” she said. Snowe’s NY Times Op-Ed about Senator Specter’s defection from the Republican party is here.