Friday is now Posters' Day; Monday will be Book Day.

[thatcrazycajun]

Today STTL inaugurates two more new features: First, one day out of every week, Friday, I propose to open up the discussion on my journal to my readers' direction. What do YOU think I should be writing about? What would you like to see here in the way of essays on current events, fiction or music, humor or personal data? This is your chance to seize the reins. If you need help coming up with ideas, I can throw out topics in a list without any commentary, such as: the presidential nomination races in both parties; the ongoing drought in the Southeast; the awarding of the Nobel Prizes this week; and the pro/college football season thus far. (Go Saints and Tigers!)

I also propose to institute a day each week—how about Monday?—as Book Day, when at least one post will be about an important (to me, anyhow) new book I think you might enjoy or need to read. It can be on politics, people (biographies and autobiographies), culture, entertainment or God only knows what. Me being a crusading liberal sort, you should be warned to expect lots of polemical material. Here's a sample: Professor Lawrence J. "Larry" Sabato Jr., longtime political analyst and news-media "go-to" guy for quotable quotes about American politics, has just put out a tome called A More Perfect Constitution. He posits that the Founders, bless 'em, could never possibly have foreseen that our little nation would get so big and powerful, or today's policy issues so complex, as they have, and expected us to hold Constitutional Conventions similar to the famous one in Philadelphia in 1776 on a regular, if infrequent, basis in order to keep up. He outlines no less than 23 distinct and urgently needed fixes to our nation's founding document, arguing that piecemeal amendments will no longer suffice to fix a system so badly broken. What do you think? And what's the best book you've read lately, on politics or not?

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

You oughta review my book, Myths America: A Practical Guide to Pageantry</> and its sequel, Myths America's Little Sister: A Practical Guide to Miss America's Outstanding Teen. Sequel in progress, and so is second edition of my first book. :)

Yeah, I know...maybe a little too esoteric for you.

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Aaaack! I really messed up the HTML in the last comment.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

I'm currently in the middle of Michael Shermer's Science Friction; it's shaping up to be pretty good.

I haven't seen Sabato's book, but his list of proposals doesn't impress me.

[gorgeousgary]

The best book I've read lately (actually, just finished a week or so ago) is Martin Greenberg & Russell Davis's recent collection If I Were An Evil Overlord. Fourteen short stories (including one from andpuff), each involving an Evil Overlord doing something right from the famous Peter Anspach list. Several of them (including Tanya's) are really hilarious.

Of course, you can guess what song was trilling through my brain the whole time I was reading the book... 8-)