42.368550, -71.096690:
Check out what’s up on Platial.com, originally posted by tracy_the_astonishing.
Art and Soul Yoga
42.368711, -71.094726: What happens when I type something in here? Will it also get posted to Platial? This is very confusing.
Check out Art and Soul Yoga on Platial.com, originally posted by lidiya6.
Casa Nia
42.389324, -71.121824: <blockquote>No early morning classes. They have 7:30 PM Vinyasa classes on Monday and Wednesday. They also have a lot of other kinds of classes, like Capoeira.</blockquote>
Check out Casa Nia on Platial.com, originally posted by tracy_the_astonishing.
42.396555, -71.122264:
Check out You got the Store 24 on one side and the Hot dog Stand on the Other on Platial.com, originally posted by tracy_the_astonishing.
New Delhi Market
42.405752, -71.131141: This little corner store opened up not too long ago, in 2006.
They have a great supply of rice, lentils, and beans, plus clarified butter, frozen nan, chutney galore, and crazy subcontinental snacks. Check the fridge for okra!
They also rent out and sell a fair selection of your favorite Bollywood movies as well as Indian music. The must-try of this place is the homemade samosa with onion chutney. I wish they had a little more in the way of homemade snacks, but I’m grateful at the same time for the samosa I can get!
The people who run the store are very friendly and chatty. It’s an all-around fun place to go.
Check out New Delhi Market on Platial.com, originally posted by tracy_the_astonishing.
New Delhi Market
42.405752, -71.131141: This little corner store opened up not too long ago, in 2006.
They have a great supply of rice, lentils, and beans, plus clarified butter, frozen nan, chutney galore, and crazy subcontinental snacks. Ckeck the fridge for okra!
They also rent out and sell a fair selection of your favorite Bollywood movies as well as Indian music. The must-try of this place is the home-made samosa and onion chutney. I wish they had a little more in the way of homemade snacks, but I’m grateful at the same time for the samosa I can get!
The people who run the store are very friendly and chatty. It’s an all-around fun place to go.
Check out New Delhi Market on Platial.com, originally posted by tracy_the_astonishing.
Platial
45.525943, -122.681060:
Only the most Awesomest folks throwin’ down the most intelligent website the world has ever seen.
Check out Platial on Platial.com, originally posted by paiges.
Geography of the 2006 Midterm Election and What Does it Mean?
via Catholicgauze
The Blowout Belt
The newest word entering the political lexicon will be “Blowout Belt.” The Blowout Belt refers to the collection of states from around Rhode Island to Indiana where Republican Party lost many seats.
The Republicans lost in the Blowout Belt because of three reasons: 1) The Iraq War, while being al Qaeda’s Vietnam, has been a propaganda loss for Bush’s party, 2) Corruption has been following the Republican Party in House with the party paying little attention to it and 3) the Republican Party has become the party of the establishment while ignoring the small government conservative/libertarian base.
The Democratic Party won the House with because of two reasons. 1) The Democrats won in the suburbs which will be swing areas for a while. The suburbs like corruption-free, low taxes, and budget surpluses. 2) In the Great Lakes states and in the Southern states yellow dog and Clinton-style Democrats won while promising to lead from the center.
2008 could go either way. The Republicans must find a way to neutralize the Iraq issue and prove it is loyal to the base on issues like spending and border control. Democrats have two roads to go down. If they operate like Bill Clinton or Joe Lieberman they will be neigh-on-unstoppable; however, if they let leftists bloggers control issues like the War on Terrorism then Republicans will be back in a heart-beat.
On local issues it seems America is still a center-right nation (ballot issue results). Several states passed laws defining marriage as between a man and woman, medical marijuana was defeated, Michigan has passed a law limiting affirmative action, and while South Dakota did reject its abortion ban polls say that one which would allow a rape exception would pass easily so expect that bill to be back.
The 1990s saw Clinton try to rebuild a Democrat Party in disarray infected by 1960s radicalism, he succeeded in part but failed to keep his DLC in firm control. The 2000s had Bush trying to build a permanent Republican Majority but it appears that Washington’s atmosphere had led the Grand Old Party astray. The future is open in Purple America.
Catholicgauze congratulates the Democrats on their win and reminds them to govern well. To Republicans Catholicgauze tells them to take the loss as grown-ups and learn their lesson.
Category: Geopolitics
Why Geography has not Returened to Harvard
via Catholicgauze
World War II was the high point for American geography. Geographers worked in all branches of the government and were making a difference in government policy. Almost as important was that the American public knew why geography was important. This changed almost as soon as the war was over. Other academics decried geography as mere description. This happened at Harvard when geologist Marland P. Billings successful managed to pull geography out of Harvard because it was “not a university subject.”
Fast forward fifty-nine years and Harvard is celebrating claiming geography is back. The big news is the launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis. The news was greeted so widely in the academic subuniverse of geography that the Harvard Geographic Society has pretty much gone into hibernation mode as an independent group.
Catholicgauze still is not happy. By “geography” they do not mean physical geography or geography that I use to help understand the world but GIS! Catholicgauze feels GIS is a useful tool, as other disciplines are using the Center for, but too many geographers and non-geographers worship the tool as an end in and of itself. Until a respectful concentration in areas like physical and world regional geography return to Harvard Catholicgauze will moan its state at the university.
