Usually informed posts by a certified philosophy/history/politics nerd.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
More shoes dropping than a Foot Locker in an earthquake
Things keep getting worse and worse for Roland Burris. Evidently the new Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, can set a special election any time he wants under the 17th Amendment. Hey, Pat...now's a good time.
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.
