My apologies for staying away from the blog for so long. I plead productivity: I've been busy actually writing papers (not just moaning about them) and, more importantly, doing some anti-war activism. It's true what they say: you can do real life, or blogging, but not both - or at least, not without a lot better time-management skills than I have.

So I ask for your patience as I try to plow through another paper. I have lots of things I want to write about - postmodernism, psychoanalysis, the environment - but they'll have to wait a bit longer. In the meantime, here's a video I really like: Post 9-11 Blues, by MC Riz:



Also, when you're putting on your veil to mourn the passing of Anna Nicole Smith, give a thought to the three migrant labourers who were shot dead at the US border. The perpetrators are, apparently 'bandits', who couldn't have been motivated by fascist scum like the Minutemen whipping up race hatred - after all, border murders are their idea. If only Smith's $474 million fortune could be used to build independent unions, cooperatives and political movements in Mexico...