am I going to try to blog more often? well... probably

So - Chuck Strahl, the man who dismantled the Wheat Board in a democratically-questionable manner, has been shuffled to the Indian Affairs portfolio. Is he intended to dismantle the Indian Act - and the Treaties - as handily? How far do you think he'll get? Discuss.

I'm taking the leap and starting Diarmaid MacCulloch's Reformation: Europe's House Divided today (or maybe tomorrow), since I finished The One Percent Doctrine yesterday. Well - I found it disappointing, not as lucidly written as, say, the book before that, The World Without Us. They're both books of investigative journalism, both very of-the-moment. I guess Weisman had the luxury of arranging his elements however he wanted - Suskind followed a vaguely chronological order, but the lack of a clear narrative thread made the whole thing hard to follow. As much as I'm on this non-fiction kick, I /am/ still reading The Well at the World's End. It's going smoothly and it's fun, but for whatever reason it doesn't draw me as much as this other stuff I'm reading.

Saw the meteor shower with some cool people last night. Lying on the hood of a car is not as easy as movies would make you think.

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