Small-screen stories
As I mentioned in my earlier posting (Screen pleasures), I did not have TV when I was growing up, as my parents found it second-rate...
Nietzsche is pretty neat
In the course of wrestling with a half-written post about the influence of neoconservative thinkers (especially Leo Strauss and Alan Bloom) on current US politics...
It WILL be the economy, stupid
Loquacious commenter Nick has contributed a long but interesting soliloquy on the mentality and concerns of the average American voter. However, what most struck me...