Yeah, I was wondering if such things existed – well, entertaining ones, anyway. I think I might like this one.
The Virtual Stoa (rather more interesting than The Guardian’s Newsblog)
I did pretty much avoid mentioning the US presidential elections, but I have to make an exception for this poem.
The election is over, the results are now known.
The will of the people has clearly been shown.
We should show by our thoughts, our words and our deeds
That unity is just what our country needs.
Let’s all get together. Let bitterness pass.
I’ll hug your elephant.
You kiss my ass.
As I say, I think I’ll like this blog.
And it blogrolls some good stuff I hadn’t spotted before:
Gwydion (an American academic in Britain; try this on foxhunting)
A possible source of amusement: Downing Street Says. Out of the mouths of babes and Blairs…
And maybe this one: Blood and Treasure.
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Thanks for the kind words. You might also like to know, if you don’t already, that this is a British political blog by an academic early modernist: my day job is teaching the history of seventeenth and eighteenth-century political thought.
Chris: nice to hear from you. (I hadn’t got round to checking you out, so hadn’t cottoned on to your field.)
…OK, the reasons why comments get sent into moderation sometimes completely baffle me. (And I haven’t had a real spam comment for ages; I’m wondering whether to just turn the blacklisting thing off…)
Must go, must go. Bah, I’ve missed the bus so will have to walk up the hill again. But at least my pre-seminar extra caffeine + sugar ration seems to be kicking in. (If I don’t do this, I tend to fall asleep half way through the seminars. Which is sort of embarrassing. And rude.)