Three times is harm

I love Back Porch Music (out-of-town folks can stream online Friday and Saturday 8-12, Sunday 8-11 Eastern Time). It's one of the main reasons I'm a member of NPR. But it drives me crazy when the DJ does that thing where he plays three versions of the same folk song in a row. Yes, it's neat how many different ways people can interpret a song, but at some level it's still playing the same song three times in a row and it drives me batty.

OK, time to write a paper responding to Fighting for American Manhood by Kristin L. Hoganson. The subtitle is "How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars." It's nice to see this stuff is getting let off the Women's Studies reservation and into general course work (it comes up quite a bit in the welfare states class, oddly enough, as well as in Intro to European Politics, which I TA).