Addons like StayFocusd that limit your websurfing time are insidious, and very quickly demonstrate why they are needed.   It's amazing how often I click on sites I've blocked, when I know perfectly well they won't come up, and it'll make fun of me instead.  I click anyway.  Clicking isn't a rational activit.  And now, having said this, I am going to add this site to the block list, at which point I'll presumably find somewhere elso to go, kill 10 minutes, then add it as well...  It at least drives you to forms of justifiable procrastination. Or, failing that, leads you to find new sites.  

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03:55:36 PM, Wednesday 23 February 2011

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 Clive Crook on Wisconsin.  This is vaguely where I am on the topic.  I find trying to listen to either side of the debate entirely demoralizing.  There are problems with our democracy being for sale, but you're never going to convince me that unions rules should have as much influence over how our public institutions run as they do, or that the answer to political corruption lies with organized labor.  But as he said, that's not the issue.  It's all theater, claptrap, fear-mongering and outright lies, and it's sucking up all the oxygen from actual reforms.  

If I were a different sort of person, I'd go make a list of hypocrites who want to abolish the filibuster but don't see a problem with state representatives fleeing.  But there's just no point.  The basic and profound hackery of american political discourse is too obvious to even bother noting. It's a team sport, nothing more, nothing less. I'm going back to read about anarchy and oppression. I find it less depressing. _
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