In which the sportswoman pushes on through

The ankle, and it's engorged counterpart.
And some lovely moccasins.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, eh?

Return to Casa Annamaria

Conclusions:
1) Political science highly unsatisfactory
2) Case of Brunello highly satisfactory
3) Children gross, yet endearing
4) Wagon firmly hitched to the train

In case you can't tell, that is a plate of bug bits.

Bday x 2

Sometimes people get older.
So, la creme de la creme of London society turned out for the most important social event of the season...The weekend also included sophisticated entertainments...
Ballroom dancing
Party games (this one is known as the 'donkey punch,' I believe)
Obviously, the highest standards were maintained at all times.

Paris/Senagal/Kosovo/China

This was two weekends ago, a multi-culti Parisian weekend with visitors from across La Manche.




And for those of you who think I don't post bad pictures of myself on this blog, consider...

Ouch.

Another day at the office

It's time for...Paris PlagesSee, there's a laptop! I'm working....

The State of the Art

This review does a nice job of summing up the state of social sciences today, and it ain't pretty. In sum, we've tried more or less everything we know about and haven't gotten much satisfaction.

Found myself agreeing with everything, EXCEPT this paragraph

Ever idealistic, the young have turned to an array of voluntary organizations, many with transnational ambitions, mirroring the efflorescence of philanthropic activity in a Victorian era equally skeptical about the capacities of states. Some good will come of this. But a thousand points of light are no substitute for the concerted power that states can bring to bear on social problems or for the political movements that rouse them to action.

Yes, but no. It is certainly true that civil society cannot and will not replace the state. But what is interesting, perhaps even fruitful, is the way the line between civil society and the state is blurring into a continuum of governance. Political science needs to explain this fuzziness, not deny it.

Still, as the article makes very clear, after 30 years of rational choice the social sciences find themselves flailing about for a methodology capable of explaining that or any other social puzzle. So the big question remains: what next?

Off with their heads!

I saw tanks as well.