Quiet Lately

Just in case anyone's wondering, I haven't fallen off of the planet; I've just been really busy after the last re-org -- we're drinking from the firehose over here trying to get up to speed on what everything is, how everything works, etc., with a baptism-by-fire "Welcome to the NFL" preliminary task to get us all started....

Will resume more postings when I understand SCA, SOA, SDOs, EJBs and several other TLAs.

David Mamut becomes a Libertarian

That bastion of right-wing conservative authoritarianism The Village Voice has an excellent article about famed neo-Con playwright David Mamet's fall to Libertarianism. Mamut's betrayal of the political principles this country was founded upon will surely reverberate for months as the mainstream right-wing intelligencia of our nation's universities cope.

Yes, I'm being satirical, but the piece is real, and well articulated.

An Excerpt:

I found not only that I didn't trust the current government (that, to me, was no surprise), but that an impartial review revealed that the faults of this president—whom I, a good liberal, considered a monster—were little different from those of a president whom I revered. Bush got us into Iraq, JFK into Vietnam. Bush stole the election in Florida; Kennedy stole his in Chicago. Bush outed a CIA agent; Kennedy left hundreds of them to die in the surf at the Bay of Pigs. Bush lied about his military service; Kennedy accepted a Pulitzer Prize for a book written by Ted Sorenson. Bush was in bed with the Saudis, Kennedy with the Mafia.

In entirely other news, somebody knows me....