Polling Place

Nov 4, 2008: Hyde Park Neighborhood Center, originally uploaded by Nat Hansen.

Hyde Park neighborhood club.

Melody spent her morning and afternoon defending the rule of law at some polling places up on the north side.

Melody's Travels

BB 64, the battleship USS Wisconsin.

The Second World

My good friend Parag wrote a book on geopolitics that's coming out this month. He was nice enough to give me an advance copy. I was surprised to see that the cover had been changed--an earlier version (which is still the cover that comes up on Goodreads) features a globe-themed rubik's cube. Parag said that they actually made that rubik's cube and he now owns it.

Masks

Outside the White House.

Parag Khanna Saves the World

My good buddy Parag has an article in the latest Harper's about whether Bill Clinton can save the world by becoming U.N. secretary general. Along the way, Parag talks about a lot of insidery U.N. business, and draws parallels between the real U.N. and the Model U.N. he messed around in in high school and college. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the U.N. is a big, self-perpetuating, ineffectual bureaucracy. Fun stuff.