Yesterday was my first day back at home and my one day before surgery and the only thing I had on my mind was to get on the golf course. Beautiful and sunny with not a cloud in the sky I was determined to simply get out on the links to not only take a deep breath but to catch up with my buddies….
One of my best friends talks golf on his new blog. Take a look.
Some of our favorite behind-the-scenes shots of POTUS and FLOTUS from April. Check out the full collection.
Weekend Fun: Name That Transit System!
Here’s something a bit different, just for kicks. These extremely abstracted topological diagrams of U.S. rail transit systems were sent to me by Herbie Markwort, who runs the Gateway Streets blog about transportation issues in St. Louis.
Personally, I love the way that these diagrams look. Simplified down to their bare essentials — connecting points and termini — the systems take on an almost runic appearance. As much as possible, the distance between connection points is kept the same in these diagrams, regardless of the length of the lines in real life.
Obviously then, diagram “A” could represent any of the single-line rail systems in the U.S. — Buffalo, Phoenix, Seattle, et al — and diagram “B” represents a system (or systems) with just one branch line extending from a main trunk line. It’s certainly a fascinating way to look at something familiar from a different viewpoint, and had me scratching my head for quite a while before Herbie let me in on the answers.
Let me know what you think they are — reblog, reply, or use the Disqus commenting system to post your answers.
Any guesses?
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We’re very pleased to launch an even more accessible, vibrant web presence for Dickinson Student Senate on Tumblr. It’s easier than ever to ask questions, post an idea, or make a suggestion. Whatever you send us, I’ll review it - along with the members of Senate’s Initiatives Committee - and get…
My attempt to place a first-rate speech in historical context.
A particularly repugnant moment in Mitt Romney’s speech to the 2012 Republican National Convention was when he said that “all the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers.” Don’t let the flowery prose fool you. Romney and the Republicans’ message is quite simple: since laws can’t solve every problem - like, for instance, the hate in someone’s heart - we shouldn’t let them solve any problem at all. This is an old trope, and the best response to it comes from Dr. King himself: “it may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me and I think that is pretty important, also.”
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