A review on Amazon for one of the books on Derluguian's reading list ends with this sentence:  'It's also refreshing to see the reflexive method of recognizing that we do ourselves much of what we accuse others of doing.'  The reviewer was referring to liberals and conservatives.  But I always do this--I always take general statements and selfishly ( Read more... )

Even with junior standing, I still wasn't able to get into the classes I wanted for next quarter: Intro to Hinduism and Urban Architecture.  So I settled on Revolutions and Change, a sociology course that fufills an Area III distro.  I'm still slightly worried because of the large amount of required reading and a few comments in the [mostly ( Read more... )

A lone livejournal comment has spurred me to write once again in my journal of journals ( Read more... )

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me-no, nor woman neither.

I've seen better days.

 There is a thin blanket of ice covering the ground.  It has just about halted the city.  Chicago people would die laughing at us.

"I forgot to take the a tempo."Ha ha ha ha ha, that will do it ( Read more... )

As of this writing, I'm going to assume Kerry has lost the election. So what hard lesson should Kerry learn from this heartbreak? According to various interviews on NBC News, it's that the Democrats have lost touch with the social concervatives, that the Democrats can't win a national election without being a national party, that Kerry just wasn' ( Read more... )

Pants on Fire ( Read more... )

Ordinarily, Daniel and politics don't mix.  I've never participated in a protest.  I never saw Fahrenheit: 9/11.  On the war in Iraq I've said said next to nothing.  And watching CSPAN is about as appealing to me as jumping in a volcano.  Until about a month ago, I was completely apathetic about the political processes of our nation.

( Perhaps that's a good thing. )