Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I'm not certain


that democracy would end with the end of the book. That's because I don't think America has truly been experiencing democracy...

Where's the Bailout for Publishing?

"Books are essential to American life, and if publishing perishes, Stephen L. Carter argues, democracy itself will soon follow."
But where is their bailout? They're certainly of more value that the corrupt financiers who have stolen the money of all the small people in the world with impunity and have been rewarded for their failure by bailouts and bonuses...

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