...how to defend private property when God is a communist...

From a review of David Mitchell's new book "Black Swan Green": Yet, for all their purported insight, half-pint Homers can be downright cloying and phony, as anyone who's met Oskar Schell can attest.

I don't know about you but I loved Oskar Schell. Anyone else?

I can't really think of anything to say today except I've found inconvenient ways to come online several times today, and yesterday, waiting for you. It is making it that much more difficult to finish (read: start) the 15-page essay due in 6 days.