I did this morning. Ever since, I have been thinking about opening a vein, or falling on my sword, or something.

The meditation about present-day Washington is very beautiful, if deeply depressing. The end of days, right there, in those mansions a-building in Virginia.

Lapham's editorial -- not quite the virtuoso performance of last month, but still, drenched in the drenchingly profound and incurable corruption of the imperial centre.

And then there is the stuff about the comets ...

I got the last two issues together, so I forget, was the dirty old man article in that issue too?

There was the recent defense of Enlightenment Principles that I strongly disagreed with too.

I am so glad to hear that you also were bothered by so thin a notion of what Enlightenment principles are, to begin with. If I can ever find where I put my energy, I'll write a bit about why that article bothered me so much. I mean, "Enlightenment" seemed to mean to him a sliver of John Locke plus the U.S. founding documents. !

Philosophers have problems, if you ask me -- thin, very thin. Still, he occasionally came up with common-sensical conclusions. It annoyed me a bit when I occasionally found myself agreeing with him.

I'm confused now about which issue Yugoslavia was in.

This morning I came to the testaments from Rwanda last, and I couldn't make it all the way through. I will read them. They are mind-stopping, especially those from people who joined in the killing. Our politics look very small before that kind of testimony, I think.