Second Life at UK & PS 545 American Political Thought

Since a few of you have been asking, the url for the PS 545 American Political Thought wiki is http://ps545spring08.wikispaces.com. It’s where the class members are keeping their journals and group projects for the digital ethnography project.
You can also find out more about what’s going on at UK’s Second Life Island by visiting http://ukisland.wordpress.com. there’s [...]

UK Second Life Island Grand Opening Thursday

Just wanted to post this invitation to UK’s Grand Opening for its Second Life Island on Thursday afternoon. I’ll be giving a brief talk as part of a panel at 2pm at the WT Young Library Auditorium. You can participate in events in Real Life or Second Life all afternoon. I hope to see you [...]

Greatest Review of the Creationism Museum Evar!

Okay, so adding to the list of things that humiliates Kentucky on The National Media Stage, we have Exhibit A: The Creationism Museum in Northern Kentucky. For me, every mention of this travest is like a reminder of a big, festering sore that just won’t go away, but is not able to be covered up, [...]

The beginnings of our hyperlocal future

My friend Patrick sent me the link to this new(-ish) wiki, Make Mine Local, which is designed to help central Kentuckians support locally grown and locally produced products. The site strongly emphasizes organic and sustainable agriculture. The site is still new, so it’s a little light on content and is still a little too text-based, [...]

The Greatest Kentuckian (Evah!)

Found over at Warren Ellis‘ place. A 1978 BBC piece on Hunter S. Thompson, the greatest Kentuckian ever.

I should probably put On the Campaign Trail ‘72 in my reading queue to reread with the statewide elections coming up. I’ve toyed with the idea of assigning it as supplemental reading in my freshman American Government course, [...]

Interviewed by WEKU

Had a random encounter with an NPR reporter from WEKU on the elevator ride up to the 16th Floor (Political Science Ground Zero) today which ended up becoming an interview for a news segment this afternoon. He was looking for another faculty member to interview about the annual Fancy Farm picnic coming up, but ended [...]

"There’s nothing that’s wrong with Kentucky politics that can’t be fixed by what’s right about it."

Sadly, Mark Nickolas (of BluegrassReport.org) is leaving our fair state at the end of the month. As one of the pioneers of political blogging in Kentucky, I have to say his voice will be sorely missed. In a post earlier today, Mark had this to say about Kentucky politics:

There’s nothing that’s wrong with Kentucky politics [...]