Past The Horizon In A Low Gear

I'm nearing the end of the last paper I'll have to write in New Haven during my junior year. (I've got one more to hand in on the 20th, but that'll be from the comforts of the Xanadu-on-the-Hackensack-River that is Teaneck, NJ). Which means that, before too long, and probably this week, blogging will recommence in a manner befitting the Boardwalk of the Yale blogosphere (along with news that's great for me and indirectly very good for the community of Yale bloggers).

Many thanks to Jeremy for providing the only thing approaching original substance lo these trying days of making up for a semester's worth of academic sloth. (Of pertinence to his last post, Brad Delong had a fairly violent reaction to that Grass column; violent as in he called Grass "crypto-Nazi scum." Henry Farrell defends Grass in this post.)

Sidenote: Like Evan I sympathize with Kinky's efforts to keep Austin, Texas a free city. This anti-smoking ban really exploded the myth of Austin I'd been preserving (and which my brother Jonas, a resident, has related to me) of an oasis of anti-P.C. libertarian liberalism like maybe nothing else in America except the Manhattan that Rudy Guliani and Mike Bloomberg destroyed. (Why I could never be mayor of New York, reason #425: a pledge not just to legalize prostitution, but to erect a monument to it in Times Square would be a necessary condition of my agreeing to run.)

Speaking of Evan, we've had blog-to-blog intercourse long enough that I think I know him and know I like him more than most people I meet in the flesh, and he'll be a forthcoming addition to the blogroll in sore need of updating.

Um, one further note as this blog transitions towards its first birthday. This has to be cleared up: This is not an anonymously written website. My name is Daniel Koffler, I'm a junior at Yale, I live in McClellan Hall (for another day anyway). When FW first kicked off, I decided to use a pseudonym in order to better enable myself to developing a blog-persona. There was never a point during which my identity was a secret and it didn't take very long at all for me to post explicit ID. I do, however intend to continue writing under the name Finnegan, because it's proven serviceable, and accept any confusion that results. For the record, (I don't think this gives anything away), the real name of our very own "Jeremy" is Jeremy.

There---back to seminar-paper writing.