Blogging from African Studies Association Conference
Michael Gallagher I am sitting in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel and Towers on 7th Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan at the 50th Annual African Studies Association Conference. I am…
October 2007
Gallagher Upswing in Mali
I am huge in Mali.
A diddy for Friday
At my wife’s behest,I emphatically state,the man staring at her breastsis a pest.
Aristotle and Clearing the Air
I should cleanse the philsophical air with a rebuttal quote to my previous post about the limitations of democracy. I would also like to mention that I believe democracy to…
Gore, the Nobel and personal apathy
Al Gore has won the Nobel Prize for his work on the environment. While I applaud everything he has done and I see him as an effective and efficient political…
Hemingway comments on Americans
Ernest Hemingway was known as a great novelist and not a great poet for good reason. His novels are wonderful; his poetry is not. It is like e.e. cummings without…
Alia Musica Concert this Saturday
If in the area this weekend (10.13.2007) and by area I mean Pittsburgh, why not support local musicians? This concert is performed with music composed in the ‘burgh and is…