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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
We should celebrate... what ?
I write below about this year's Wizbang! Weblog Awards contest - I was just looking at the results from last year's (which I went to via the sidebar link from Kimberly Swygert's excellent education blog).
From the 2003 awards page, I went over to Swanky Conservative, which did well in its Ecosystem category. Over there I found that it's somebody's birthday today. (The entry links to NRO's Corner... Surprise, suprise!! But this over at Michelle's is disappointing... Well, even the beautiful Ms. Malkin does stuff like that sometimes.
I had thought awhile ago about writing on today's birthday boy - but I never got around to it. And with class coming up in a few hours, I shouldn't do any writing now either. But expect some more stuff on this and other topics in the near future.
Update (12/2/04): For some reason, it's been hard to stay awake - yesterday and today... Here is a 5-part series on this topic, written by historian Ralph Raico. It is from the highly-recommended Costs of War, edited by John V. Denson. Also, check out Adam Young's in-depth article, and a shorter one by Michael Lind. Karen DeCoster recently blogged on this subject, as did another blogrollee here (and there), Australian Tim Gillin. And of course, here's something from Ann Coulter's good friend, Mr. Sobran.
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Since I'm immersed at the moment with coursework, I thought it might be appropriate to feature some interesting books here that are connected to my current curriculum. These two were published just a few years ago, and were authored by one of my professors. (Plus, if you purchase them using the links above, I will receive a small commission... through Amazon.com's "Associates" program.)
posted by Aakash at 3:08 PM
Monday, November 29, 2004
Focus and Concentration
Once again, I stayed up all night. It seems quite difficult to concentrate sometimes; I've had several major assignments that need to be done, but they're taking longer than I thought. And it is frustrating, because there is so much that I want to comment on, and blog about.
Right now though, I need to master the Turabian bibliography format, and finalize a History project that needs to be e-mailed to my professor.
I just found out last night/this morning that Kevin Aylward is doing his Weblog Awards again (which some of us remember from last year). I tried to get in many nominations, despite the fact that the deadline for submissions was Sunday... I wonder if he will accept those that were posted after midnight.
Last year, several of the blogs that I nominated were chosen for the ballot. It would be nice if that would happen again.
Update: Last evening, I saw that a few of the categories for nomination were still open. The sites that I nominated for best "military blog" include Jason Van Steenwyk's excellent weblog... When I first found that site, it was called " Iraq Now," and Jason was stationed in Iraq. He is home now, I believe.
I also nominated Jo Fish's Democratic Veteran and libertarian Andrew Olmsted's site. Both of those are very well-designed, and provide insightful commentary on both foreign affairs and domestic issues, from varying perspectives.
For old time's sake, I nominated Sgt. Stryker's site and Tacitus'. And for new time's sake, I nominated a refreshingly-insightful weblog that I just found the other day: Southern Loyalist. It's great to see more traditionalist conservative and pro-liberty, anti-state sites in the Blogosphere.
I also had to nominate Mr. Mays' blog: Army of One. And by the way: I probably would have nominated John Donovan's Argghhh! (for some category) if it hadn't already been. He has a great site... Also check out Mrs. Donovan's.
Also, I think it would have been wrong for me not to have nominated the weblog at the " Operation Truth" site. I found out about that site awhile ago, but I don't think I knew that it now has a weblog. I hope, for the sake of fairness and balance, that Mr. Aylward includes this blog on the ballot.
posted by Aakash at 11:17 AM
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Happy Thanksgiving!!
I want to wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving holiday.
Despite all that could be better (today, and in the recent past), I have a lot to be thankful for... We all do.
It's already 8:45 PM, and I haven't even had anything to eat all day (my sleep/wake pattern has been screwy since the election time). I should be getting home now, but here are my past entries for this holiday:
Thanksgiving 2003
Thanksgiving 2003 - Watchblog
Thanksgiving 2002
There's a lot of good stuff there (if I do say so myself... though I think others might agree :-). I will be doing some more blogging over break, but until then - HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and yours!!
posted by Aakash at 8:40 PM
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Swamped
I owe the readers of this weblog an apology.
The past several weeks have been unbelievably hectic and stressful... I am the Chairman of the UIS College Republicans this year, and this semester has been especially significant - being the period of time during the key phase of a 4-year election season. Additionally, the UIS CRs has been much different this year that in years past; we have been doing so much more than before, and have become one of the most visible and active organizations on campus. I would love to elaborate on some of the great things that we have been working on, and which we still have planned for the future, and I would have liked to have been doing commentary on the elections, and on current affairs, like I've been doing at this site for over two years now.
But unfortunately, one person can only do so much. In the period of time before the election, it seemed that there was so much to do, and way too little time to get it all done. (Those working on the GOP campaigns - such as those of Keyes for Senate and Zinga for Congress - probably especially felt this way... This has been a very frustrating election cycle, for those of us who are Republicans in Illinois.)
One would think that after the election was over, things would get better for some of us. While that may have happened to some extent, there is still a lot going on, especially for those of us who are students. For the College Republicans, I had wanted to do something for Veterans Day (we did get some flyers posted up around campus), and I would still like to do a Thanksgiving or Christmas-related project for charity. We did commemorate " Freedom Week," and may have incited a little bit of dialogue between us and the campus leftists. But aside from that, I am way behind in many things... And it is going to be a great deal of work to get caught up. I will try to get back to blogging soon, but for now, I have overdue course work to complete, and... some other things to get straightened out. Please don't remove this site from your blogrolls, and I will try to have new material up here somewhat soon. Thanks!
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