Wednesday, September 08, 2004
DUDE!!!!! my very own eggs and tomatoes made it into the nytimes!!!! :)
fancied up a bit, here's the recipe
fancied up a bit, here's the recipe
can we declare democracy dead yet?
it seems like the more we understand how elections really work, the more we can analyze what are "swing states" and "swing voters", the more obvious it becomes how little say all but a vanishingly small proportion of the electorate really have in how the country runs. the only thing keeping the government responsive to the will of the people may soon be the perception of a democracy that has no basis in the actual distribution of political power. the current administration seems to have realized this...not perceiving a democracy, they see no need to act as the leaders of one.
it seems like the more we understand how elections really work, the more we can analyze what are "swing states" and "swing voters", the more obvious it becomes how little say all but a vanishingly small proportion of the electorate really have in how the country runs. the only thing keeping the government responsive to the will of the people may soon be the perception of a democracy that has no basis in the actual distribution of political power. the current administration seems to have realized this...not perceiving a democracy, they see no need to act as the leaders of one.
i've finished with the ccc, time to move on to the d's. (brand new school year, brand new reading)
dreams of my russian summers -andrei makine
democracy and its critics - robert a dahl
next up,
on the pleasure of hating - william hazlitt, yet another underappreciated miserable genius who died in poverty in a lonely boarding house (and yes, i am judging this essay by its title)
... oh, and *cloud atlas* (david mitchell, aka rp jr.) but i ent got it yet.
dreams of my russian summers -andrei makine
democracy and its critics - robert a dahl
next up,
on the pleasure of hating - william hazlitt, yet another underappreciated miserable genius who died in poverty in a lonely boarding house (and yes, i am judging this essay by its title)
... oh, and *cloud atlas* (david mitchell, aka rp jr.) but i ent got it yet.
