Kieran Healy

Posts from March 2003

The Honeymoon’s Over

Always wanted to say that. And it’s true! I’m back at home in my new role as a respectable married man.

I strongly second most of Jim Henley’s observations about What He Won’t Be Doing now the war has started. (It’s about time Jim got added to the blogroll, incidentally.) The efforts of Sean-Paul Kelley […]


San Francisco Protests

Though Glenn Reynolds has a strong desire to believe the anti-war movement is dying (as evidence he cites the small size of the anti-war protest in that traditional protest-flashpoint of Knoxville today), your typical San Francisco resident is likely to tell you that anti-war sentiment is alive and well and blocking his commute. This […]


Self-Defense

William Saletan’s brief observation about self-defense and aggression is worth reading.


War Begins

I was just reading the first chapter of Albert Hirschman’s Shifting Involvements, which I picked up this morning, when I heard President Bush’s short announcement. As it happens, Hirschman has this to say about war:

Modern wars are such overpowering events that they make greater attention to public affairs virtually compulsory, but their outbreak is usually […]


Live from San Francisco

It’s probably morally wrong to blog on your honeymoon (Laurie and I got married on Monday) but what can I say? I wanted some news on the impending war, but our hotel room has no TV. On a whim, I turned on my PowerBook and checked to see if there were any open wireless access […]


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16 March 2003 @ 8am

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Media Coverage

Here’s a St Patrick’s day weekend/ blogging/ media convergence. Stephen McKinley’s this story in the Irish Echo is all about blogging. I get quoted, along with MIck Fealty of Slugger O’Toole. They didn’t spell my name properly, alas, but I suppose that’s the price of fame.


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