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Comrade secretary

Last week I was elected to a two-year term as the secretary of the Weinland Park Community Civic Association. So, for the next two years I'll be using this blog to account my experiences serving on the WPCCA board. Stay tuned!...

Very nice.

I'm watching Liverpool - Hull City from work.

Against Dynamo Houston

Our starting eleven. CrewVSDynamos-7 Originally uploaded by studio79

I'm on Setanta Sports, 2

I'm on Setanta Sports

The FIFA world players of the year, 1991-2006

2006: Fabio Cannavaro 2005: Ronaldinho 2004: Ronaldinho 2003: Zinedine Zidane 2002: Ronaldo 2001: Figo 2000: Zinedine Zidane 1999: Rivaldo 1998: Zinedine Zidane 1997: Ronaldo 1996: Ronaldo 1995: George Weah 1994: Romario 1993: Roberto Baggio 1992: Marco van Basten 1991: Lothar Matthäus That's seven for Brasil, three for France (all Zidane!), two for Italy, and one each for Germany, Portugal, Holland, and Liberia.

I'm at a dead end

I just emailed the drummer in my band and told him, barring major changes, i.e., we kick out the other guitar player, I'm breaking up the band.

Robert Putnam and Diversity

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam on the problems and benefitsof diversity: Ethnic diversity will increase substantially in virtually all modern societies over the next several decades, in part because of immigration. Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates. In the short to medium run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity challenge social solidarity and inhibit social capital. In support of this provocative claim I wish to adduce some new evidence, drawn primarily from the United States. In order to elaborate on the details of this new evidence, this portion of my article is longer and more technical than my discussion of the other two core claims, but all three are equally important. In the medium to long run, on the other hand, successful immigrant societies create new forms of social solidarity and dampen the negative effects of diversity by constructing new, more encompassing identities. Thus, the central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of ‘we’. Putnam, Robert D. (2006) "E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century." Scandinavian Political Studies 30, 137-74