Weekly Reader
- August 22nd, 2008
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Christy Dena’s insightful response to Jane McGonigal’s essay The Puppet Master Problem: Design For Real World, Mission-Based Gaming from the Second Person anthology.
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Michael Filas review of N. Katherine Hayles’ My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts.
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Daniel Green reviews the new James Wood book in the new issue of Open Letters Monthly.
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The New Yorker piece on Obama’s early years in Chicago politics is another indicator he is just as scummy and slimy as the next politician. Making the right friends, the right votes, the right influences; you might counter by saying “that’s politics” but I say that if you take part in that crap, I blame you. I’d rather have no government than one filled with slimeballs. None of the above…yet again…in 2008.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn recently passed away. When we moved to Manahawkin, I remember the first friend I made was reading The Gulag Archipelago at the time. We started to bond while discussing that and other books.
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Io9 offers a guide for fans of the modern Doctor Who series who wish to get into the classic series.
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Scott Esposito comments on the amazing ending of The Mill On The Floss and links to a review of the novel from a 1860 issue of The Atlantic.
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PETA still sucks as much as I remember.
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If you’re looking for a party’s political candidate for the top office in the land who hasn’t done ANYTHING shady, you’re naturally going to be disappointed. Obama’s certianly not a perfect candidate, but is still much preferable to McCain, regardless of what he allegedly did in his earlier political life. That’s not “that’s politics,” that’s the reality of what politics are in 2008.
I guess that I have absolutely no respect for anyone who says “I’ll sit this one out” because Obama’s actually a politician. To do that implies that there’s essentially no difference between Obama and McCain, and that there’d be no practical difference for swaths of Americans (not to mention Iraqis and Afghanis) if McCain was elected instead.
Don’t be pathetically idealistic, please.
It’s nice to see someone actually reads this blog…
Sean, you are probably right that this is the reality of politics in 2008 but it is still extremely troublesome for me. Obviously, there are plenty of differences between the two major candidates. As you correctly state, there are horrible implications for many people around the world if McCain were to win, but I still have a lot of discomfort with Obama despite that.
…and even more discomfort now given his pro DOMA/Patriot Act/No Child Left Behind VP choice. What a horrible choice.