Leigh M. Johnson

Please, History, Don’t Repeat Yourself…

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Film, Film Reviews, Human Rights, Politics, Pop Culture/Film/Literature 2 Comments

I recently viewed the excellent documentary “The Fall of Fujimori” about Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori was elected President in 1992 on a populist platform, during a time when Peru was being sacked by both radical insurgent groups and abject poverty. As you can probably see from the photo (left), Fujimori’s win was surprising, as…

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Ology-ologist

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Pop Culture/Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature 2 Comments

[NOTE: I know all of my Greek-y friends are going to want to respond to this post with some elaborate explanation of logos. Please refrain. Please.] About a month ago, my housemate began making fun of my various pretensions of expertise by attaching the suffix “-ologist” to whatever it was that I was talking about….

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Death By Red Tape

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Politics 2 Comments

I know that we all have our own horror stories of bureaucratic asphyxiation…but recently in my life, I have found myself increasingly strangled by red tape. I suspect that it may be a particularly pronounced struggle in academia–maybe politics is as bad, but it can’t be much worse–and I’ve found my patience (and diplomacy) wearing…

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argh…. blogging.

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Uncategorized 2 Comments

so here’s the brief history of my attempts to keep any sort of diary. I start on some day in the first week of january, write for a max of four days atraight, revist the diary at some point in may and then discard the whole thing. basically, pathetic. however, since i am sitting at…

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Whatever Happened To Righteous Indignation?

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Human Rights, Politics Comments Off on Whatever Happened To Righteous Indignation?

so i heard (again) on NPR today a debate about the morailty of torture. and this is what i have to say about these debates in general, which i am hearing all-too-frequently thse days: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IS THIS REALLY AN ETHICALLY “GRAY” AREA? WHEN DID IT BECOME DIFFICULT FOR US TO SAY– WITHOUT…

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