Friday, December 21, 2007
(8:45 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Just One More Night
I confess that I am starting to view major socio-moral dysfunction as a positive qualification for political office. For instance, if I were to endorse a Republican candidate, I would go for Mitt Romney specifically because he's a pathological liar. Similar considerations have led me to be less panicked about the prospect of Hillary getting the nomination. I confess that the Chicago model of politics may be corrupting me. And maybe Zizek as well.I confess that I have recently become enamored of Joanna Newsom's Milk-Eyed Mender, and I feel like I am supposed to be ashamed of admitting it. I confess that I just added Pitchfork to my RSS feed, so that I can more accurately gauge the degree to which my music taste is pathetic. I confess that I fear that Pitchfork is already no longer cool and no one told me. Where is Robb Schuneman when I need him?
I confess that I'm reading Church Dogmatics II/1 as part of my exam prep, and that I positively enjoy reading Barth -- next to him, every other theologian seems "hand-wavy," particularly 20th century theologians.
I confess that I've developed a severe addiction to Arrested Development. I confess that the rumors of
