Reading: "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Links.

Plus, I'm in a box, first wipeout, prom dress, updates for Irish_girl, goodbye to porsche_girl and less!

Poll: Biggest scandal of Obama Administration?

Dear "M.S.":

It's been several YEARS since you began trying to befriend me on various social-networking sites, and as I have yet to accept any of them (and will continue to do so), please take a fucking hint and go die in a fucking fire.

Regards,
ammoniacal

Now, I don't really have a complete axiomatic politics system, as I'm a pragmatist who thinks any system will involve throwing some bodies under the rug. The question is, whose bodies is your system built on? I think axiomatic approaches are self-delusions because you can't get anything a priori, so I don't believe in natural law as such. Revealed truths about government don't tell us we have rights, either, they tell us we have duties and then tell us that politics involve killing people, unfortunately, and there is no just political system, so that's not helpful, either, for the axiomatically inclined, particularly those who make a big fuss about "rights" and "liberties".

I figured that the 9AM Sunday showing would be pretty empty. It was about 3/4 full. Mostly people my age, some with kids. Very turbo-geeky in the crowd waiting to get in, with people arguing over which is the best series/movie/etc. Worth seeing in the theater once.

Mildly spoilerriffic content about ST2:ID:IMAX:3D inside.

Getting back into the habit of doing this has proved challenging.

I'm not sure when it started, precisely, but I do remember being thrilled by Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture as recorded by the London symphony. I was maybe six years old.

and we even rode on the sidewalks!

There's even more biking planned for tomorrow.

Plus, prom planning, vacation planning and college tour planning.

Reading: "The New Republic". Watching "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" TV series, "Iron Man 3", "Star, Trek Into Darkness". Random thought on economics. Me. Stoicism. Links.

Close to it, though.