Welcome

I initially called this "Whipping Postmodern," but that didn't work for me. This blog won't be as academically oriented as that title would make it sound, but it won't be completely juvenile either. It's somewhere in between.

This is a politics-free zone, since I happen to think most political blogs are essentially therapy for cranks. If you think yours in wonderful, then fine, you're an exception. But not all of you are right.

Besides ... yes, I'm a journalist. And even though I don't work in the news department and you most likely haven't heard of me, I know that any discussion of politics inevitably ends in me being asked to defend every mistake the "MSM" makes. (Actually, that should be "make," since "media" is a plural word, but when you're sticking the same label on everyone ... OK, that's enough of that topic.)

In any case, I have better things to discuss than the machinations of two artificially created pseudo-intellectual extremes. I plan to talk about what's going on in life. That's everything from my kid to society at large, with a bit of an emphasis on music and TV. Sounds superficial, but there's a great quote attributed to Ruskin that opens Kenneth Clark's Civilization:

"Great nations write their autobiographis in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last."

So there. Enjoy the blog.