Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Tuesday, 2025.04.01 
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," wrote Oscar Wilde, and I would
like to suggest that the same can be said for bad politics...

It seems to me that the politics of liberal reform, in recent years, shows many
of the same characteristics as amateur poetry. It has been more concerned with
the kind of symbolic action that gratifies the passions of the reformer rather
than with the efficacy of the reforms themselves. Indeed, the outstanding
characteristic of what we call "the New Politics" is precisely its insistence on
the overwhelming importance of revealing, in the public realm, one's intense
feelings—we must "care," we must "be concerned," we must be "committed."
Unsurprisingly, this goes along with an immense indifference to consequences, to
positive results or the lack thereof.

		Irving Kristol, Symbolic Politics and Liberal Reform, Dec. 15, 1972

2007.04.04

Evil Twin

😈

I have one. Do you?

I’ll just let mine introduce himself…

Wow. He has birth certificates and everything. What he doesn’t have is a sense of responsibility for paying his own damn bills.

More to the story of my Evil Twin can be found here. I have more than 20 years of history in dealing with this idiot from time to time, frequently in response to risks against my credit rating. I suppose at some point all this background, plus much more, will be posted on the blog. But for now, all I wanted to do was experiment with how to embed audio files into my blog.

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