Noted Here and There ...
At Rebunk, Derek Catsam just kicks the bejeebus out of an article by pomo litcrit Michael Chaney. It's the sort of takedown that leaves a writer no alternative but to slink humiliated from the field. I wince when I read such things these days; but, then, I recall the days when I wrote such things.
Sic transit gloria mundi. So much for the Red Sox. A quick scan of the net finds Abu Aardvark and Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber hailing the Green Bay Packers' win over the Washington Redskins as a signal of a Kerry victory on Tuesday.
David Adesnik at Oxblog is having fun with the Goode/Weed race for Congress representing the Virginia district around Charlottesville. Near Philadelphia, Red Ted is threatening to vote in his bathrobe and carpet slippers,"just because I can."
The internet's Left – well, at least Adam Kotsko, Scott McLemee, and wood s lot – welcome the return of a gauche to blogging. Together, they contemplate the possibility that Julia Kristeva is faux gauche.
By the way, if you haven't read McLemee's piece about the biographer of Hannah Arendt and her mistaking the United Jewish Appeal for the Jewish Defense League, do so. I suspect that we're making similar mistakes, failing to distinguish terrorist organizations from authentic philanthropies today.
Finally, examing the entrails of the election returns after Tuesday will be in the competent hands of my colleagues at Cliopatria. From Wednesday to Saturday, I'll be at the Southern Historical Association convention in Memphis. Maybe we'll have a decision in the presidential contest by the time I return.