Our August hiatus continues. I’m a little hampered by the painful shoulder (broke a toe yesterday as well), and there have been the usual distractions of this late-summer season. (There’s a lot going on in the world, as always, but I’m taking a little break.)
What time I’ve had for writing I’ve been using to rework my old Small World post — about human societies and the ideal gas laws — for publication elsewhere. (The idea still seems to me to be a useful metaphor, and I’ll be glad to offer it to a wider audience.) It should be up soon, and I’ll post a link here when it is.
I’m heading for surgery on the shoulder on September 14th, so I’ll probably be out of commission for a while after that as well. I’ll be glad to start getting back to normal — if “normal” is even possible any more — after that.
Meanwhile, have a look at this sobering article by Christopher Caldwell over at CRB. If you think all we of the “silent majority” need to do to regain the ground we’ve lost is to stop letting ourselves be bullied by this abusive culture, think again: we have, in our unwisdom, erected formidable legal obstacles as well over the past few decades. We’ve really got ourselves into a bit of a pickle.