http://blog.bearstrong.net en new blog, where each post is 256 words or less - or you get your money back!]]> http://blog.bearstrong.net/max256/ The last time I recommended books I asked you not to think of them as obligatory reading. But if you did, and if you bought and read them all, you'd be finished and out of reading material right about now, so here are some more books for you to read, or wish you had the time to read, or feel relieved for already having read. I do this because I want to help you. Evil plays only a very small part of it. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/more_books.html Not sure what do watch next? Finished with Sopranos, The Wire, and [name your favourite here], and wondering how you'll ever make do with regular television again? No need to. Watch one of these well-written gems instead. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/galactic_heroes_bureaucrat_spies.html Today's myths are about historical figures, not gods and heroes. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/historical_mythologies.html There's a strange term that is used in No Gods, No Masters - An Anthology of Anarchism, which collects 19th and 20th century anarchist writings. The term is 'libertarian communism'. It once described a wing of the anarchist movement. Today it has an unintentinal zen quality, and points to both the contradictions of anarchism and the muddiness of the ideological map. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/no_gods_no_masters.html Murder! Rape! Conspiracy! Torture! Dreadful crimes that disgust all of us. And yet there are some people - we all know it - who not only like to daydream about such horrors, but have set out to document their fantasies, in lurid detail, by putting them down on paper. Yes, my fellow citizens, again I stand before you with the unpleasant task of accusing one among us of having committed novels. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/prosecution_of_steven_saylor.html Nyhetsmediene stjeler troen fra en på at det finnes interessante mennesker i norsk samfunnsliv. Niels Chr. Geelmuyden gir den tilbake. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/geelmuyden.html On a 1927 satire of evangelism, and what we can learn from it. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/elmer_gantry.html Something unexpected happened over the Christmas holiday: I got decaffeinated. http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/accidentally_decaffeinated.html