Ways to classify — taxonomy.
There are many different taxonomies for regime types, and a bewildering fauna of terms is frequently used carelessly, in ways that do more to befuddle than to clearify. The choice of terms usually not neutral, as a researcher may have a theory in which some feature is more important than others, [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Regime types and regimes change — lecture #14
Casino Vulgaris
And I don’t mean “vulgaris” in a depreciating way, but in a good one, if that makes any sense.
Because finally, after some fourty years of sci-fi, James Bond is back as a secret agent whose knuckles aren’t afraid of a little dirty fighting in filthy Easter European public toilets, wthout any explosive gadgets or bleeping [...]
Batman Forgettable?
Before I begin on the day’s political science lecture, I thought I’d review the films I watched this weekend, starting with “Batman Forever“.
It’s Schuemacher’s first, and while it is way, way, way better than “Batman & Robin“, it doesn’t come too near Burton’s two Batman films. First of all, let’s have a looksie at Batman [...]
The scientific study of politics — lecture #13
Bah, I seem to have grown a conscience over the night, so I was unable to watch much more than a couple of minutes of Heroes before realising that I should rather be typing out a set of lecture notes. (But I managed to play “Championship Manager Season 97-89″ before surrendering to this crap, so [...]
Summary of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, season 1
It’s only been one week since I received the Angel and Buffy DVD sets from Amazon, and I’ve already watched the first season of Buffy, so yay me! Or, to be more specific, yay my sister, because if it hadn’t been for her, it’d probably be a while before I started watching the series again.
Anyway, [...]
“Have you ever quoted Shakespeare with your beloved in a dark theatre hallway?” — AS3×13 Waiting In The Wings
I gotta admit I was somewhat flabbergasted when Loki listed this episode as one of his 25 favourites, because I just remembered it as a mediocre episode with a lot of dull ballet. Man, was I wrong…
This one’s awesome from beginning to end. All the way from the first scene, where Wes confides to Cordy [...]
VanderMeer vs. Bakker
It may be a little dated, but I just wrote a summary of the VanderMeer-Bakker debate fro this spring, over at fantasyforumet.net, and I advise everyone who cares about literature to read at least the two original essays and the interview, if not necessarily the discussion from VanderMeer’s blog, as it is somewhat tedious.
An introduction to comparative politics — lecture #12
So, we’re done with the international part of the course, and it’s time to have a look at the field of comparative politics.
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What is comparative politics?
As usual, we start with a definition of the term, and that is that CP is the study of politics within one or more countries — thus leaving the relationship [...]
Gobi next?
So, I bought “Sahara” today, and after a nice dinner, me and my sister watched it. Frankly, my expectations were kinda low, because my only knowledge of this film came from a trailer I watched a month a go or so, and in my experience, these kinds of action-adventures often turns out to be disappointments [...]
Tralala, tralla-lu…
Diddle duddle daddle
Dada daaaaaaaaa…
International cooperation and international law — lecture #11
This lecture (which is the last of the IP ones, and was held on October 3, meaning that I’m insanely behind on my schedule) dealt mainly with answering the question of why cooperation exists in international relations, in light of Liberalist theories — seeing as Realists don’t really believe in cooperation — but with some [...]
Dork, geek, nerd
I love this test, and so I took it again, for the third time, or so. The last time I took, it, my results were the following:
Pure Nerd
60 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 43% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area [...]
Gee, I’m blushing, here… :)
I was just browsing the stats page, when I stubled upon this thing, and now I’m almost blushing. This is almost too much.
Thanks, Zhayena. It really is too much.
“Batman” and “Batman Returns”
Finally, after some two or three months, my sister and I got around to continuing our small Batman project, watching both “Batman” and “Batman Returns“.
The former was totally dominated by Jack Nicholson as The Joker. Nicholson has such a powerful presence on screen, and The Joker is so psychotic, ha makes everything else pale. However, [...]
The Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
Wow. Just wow.
Reviews, reviews, reviews…
Sometimes it seems as if I don’t do anything but write reviews…
Anyway, I thought it was about time I reviewed the films I’ve seen in the last five days. There’s three of them, and they are the following:
Fantastic Four.
Compared to X-men, this was meagre stuff. The characters were very much stereotypes, and exaggerated [...]
I could have been elsewhere…
Today, I’d originally planned to attend a guest lecture held by Petter Eide, secretary general of the Norwegian section of Amnesty International, in which he’d speak about the conditions of human rights during this “War on terror” that seems to be going on. (By the way, how’s that going for them?) But because my dad [...]
One armed bandit — AS3×11 Birthday
Splendid episode.
This one laid down the foudations for a hell of a lot of later events, such as Cordelia’s ascendency to Godhood, Skip’s little double play, and problably much more. Not to mention that the parts where Codelia was with Skip, as well as the parts where she was on her own in the alternative [...]
Oh, and…
Another one of these.
I’m currently in the Seventh Heaven.
I love Norway
I mean, in what other countries does the head of government show up for a five minute interview, an a rather critical one, too, on the national broadcasting company? I noticed this last Saturday, too, when “Sausage” Hansen, the secretary of labour, appeared for a couple of minutes, explaining some finer points of his recent [...]
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