Apparently no one reads blogs anymore so I may terminate this and go back to writing in BOOKS! On the other hand isn't this infinitely more readable than all those suffocating words piled up like old logs on Daily Beast and Huffington?

Christopher Hitchens has done it again --another pretentious incoherent say -nothing-in-particular article in the Atlantic -- this time about Marx. Read it twice to see if we were being unfair but in the end could not figure out the point --if there was a point.

A scream the way people are taking a PR Flak's ruse as real--the Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart "debate" which is a feeble means of scaring up viewers.

The change in the quality of life from the 1950s is incalculable. Symposia visited the Phoenix area recently and remembers the gritty charm of the southwest in the past when each centimeter of land was not given over to sterile development and Coach stores (world's ugliest consumer designs). One keeps on thinking of that last scene in Zabriskie Point!

Another example of 1984 or Brave New World -- a new "study" finds that idiotic optimists live longer than intelligent skeptics. They. whoever they are, would have us all robotic, grinning Stepford wives so some imaginary Wizard of Oz who probably looks like Bernard Madoff could control things. Whew! We need a paradigm shift in thinking in 2009.

Symposia is no prude but was quite nauseated after seeing on the boob tube (where it belongs)Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. It was far less the puerile pornography than the stupifying boredom of the whole damned thing. Anything to escape the news these days!