I’ve abandoned this blog for a long time because I had a busy life. A severe case of post-graduate anomie has driven me back. The beginnings of the newest recession have kept me unemployed and restless, and in my new setting I feel cut off from the aspects of society to which I care to relate. Introversion and cynicism doesn’t help in either regard. The plus side of the situation is now that I’m unsatisfied and bored, I have plenty of issues to rant about and copious amounts of time to review my books. So I might try to revive this dead blog and see if I stay interested long enough to nurse it back to health.