On the financial crisis: I don’t understand this stuff in the least, but the picture that has emerged strikes me as a sort of witches’ brew of deregulation and government fiddling in the market. Government seems to have encouraged foolish risk-taking while failing to restrain the predators who predictably took advantage of the situation. This Washington Post editorial seems to sum it up pretty well. “Government-sponsored upside-only capitalism” sounds about right.
Be that as it may, in a comment the other day Francesca provided the best description I’ve heard of the situation the rest of us are in: “like a dog or a cat being taken somewhere in a box.”
Where I work: if anyone reading this subscribes to Touchstone, you may have seen a piece of mine in the October issue. The byline tells where I work: Spring Hill College. I have deliberately not mentioned that fact here, as I wanted to keep a very strict separation of blog and work. Since it’s not only a college but a Jesuit college, and since I’m…who I am, it could be anticipated that what I write here would not necessarily be sympatico with my employer. But having decided to come out of this closet in the pages of Touchstone, I’m doing so here as well. I work in a really beautiful place: go here and click on the slide show for proof (it’s near the bottom of the page). My office is in the library. It’s probably not more than a hundred yards from the chapel, and I’m ashamed of how seldom I go to daily Mass; it’s mainly because I spend my lunch hour blogging and emailing (I do stop in and pray for a minute most days).
I see the Touchstone thing is online now, here.
Antiaphrodite’s blog: Here. The trick to reading it is to use the down-arrow key until the text is clear of the graphics. “If anybody asks how I died, I was walking on sunshine.” Nice.
There was supposed to be another item here, about some changes I was about to make to the blog, but I just changed my mind and decided not to do them today after all.
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