Usually informed posts by a certified philosophy/history/politics nerd.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Forget I ever wrote that...
I recant my earlier championship of Rob Andrews for the New Jersey Senate seat. Steve Benen has convinced me. My point, though, stands: New Jersey has run some catastrophically weak candidates in recent memory, and that state reeks of corruption.
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo.
Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.
