rw: How scary is it that RigorousIntuition blog rings so many bells? (wStair-short w/link) also Cursor, SusieB, etc :
It's terrible how uninteresting I find contemporary politics these days. I used to be better, but like with many supposedly complicated subjects, I find myself looking behind them to the personal psychology of the players, which is dreary; and then there's the fact that politics are peopled by old men, and that this means that American political affairs are not visually interesting.
But then I discovered Rigorous Intuition (via Robotwisdom as usual) and now I find I can wrap my news in the musings of kooky paranoid sex abuse books, flying saucer theories, quotes from great rock albums, and in a recent instance, a brilliant analysis of the psychosexual atrocities of Abu Ghraib via Pasolini's anti-fascist film "Salo."
The great insights and great humor of satire ebb and flow in blogger Jeff Wells' writing. Only recourse to fringe thinking seems to be able to account for the weirdness that's really out there.