fair and balanced, dumb and dumber

It's nice to see the system working for a change.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden has the latest on the multivalent and multitudinous idiocies of the Fox News Network.

And may I just add that Denny Chin is now also my hero?

disaffected

Finished reading Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet in Purgatory. Fascinating in bits, interesting in parts, tedious in places. I am, I admit it, a freak for close-reading, and close-reading is not one of Greenblatt's great skills. He's brilliant at the New Historicist gesture he himself coined, the linking of a literary text to a cultural one, but reading the text is not really what he's about.

But he said some very useful things about Hamlet, and I had to read him anyway (because he's Stephen Greenblatt and he's writing about something related to my dissertation topic). So it's good to have that out of the way. Now I just have to integrate him into the Hamlet chapter, and possibly a couple other places.

( slightly existential maunderings behind the cut-tag )