Incommunicado
March 12th, 2009 by Nick SaintSorry for the lack of posting over the past few weeks. I have one hard drive in the loss column, which brings me down to a total of zero (0) functioning computers. The New York Public Library has been fairly accomidating, but I haven’t had enough time online to post, nor do I have enough of an idea what is going on in the world. I assume we’re descending ever deeper into a depression while Pakistan becomes steadily less politically stable, making it difficult to guess whether we will all be able to die of starvation before the terrorists get us with a nuclear strike. But maybe everything is just peachy. I can’t stomach much television news coverage, and I don’t like getting ink on my hands, so without a computer, I might as well be living in a cave.
A normal rate of posting will resume once the technical issues are resolved. Until then, here’s a quick thought: I’ve seen a lot of posters around my neighborhood advertising a series of live events (debates? discussions? mud wrestling matches?) featuring Ann Coulter and Bill Maher. These posters boast that they provide direct access to these folks with ‘no spin’. And I’ve seen them referenced elsewhere - apparently this is sort of a big deal. This blows my mind. Apparently someone thinks that all the brilliant, nuanced political theory Coulter and Maher have been developing all these years, toiling away thanklessly in their respective think tanks, has been mangled and spun by partisan hacks. Now - Gods be praised! - the people will be able to understand what they really think.
It seems to me, though, that if someone really wanted to improve the public’s understanding of political thought from both left and right, and for some reason that person really, really wanted to involve Coulter and Maher in that effort, the natural thing to do wouldn’t be to put them on stage together, but rather to shoot them both dead. Just a thought.
