Usually informed posts by a certified philosophy/history/politics nerd.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
ACORNs come from trees, don't they?
There's not much one can do but chuckle at the ACORN nonsense coming from the right these days. They're practically acting like ACORN is the Men In Black, only craftier. I will give the right this: they never run out of Shibboleths.
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.
