Pull up a chair, throw on some jazz or some-such. There's thinking to be done.
In The Duke's time as an incisive commentator on filth and sleaze here at blogcritics.org, I find that I'm becoming much more exposed to the old American political debates and such than perhaps I would have been, had I continued writing only for The Ballymoney Times, as I once did, and used the net merely for the illegal downloading of Dexys Midnight Runners b-sides, as I never did even once. What has happened is that a whole loada stuff I'd never really thought much about has been drip-fed into the Skull De Duke, and so things that no fella from County Antrim need worry about have been occupying my waking hours, in so far as the old "thinking", "pondering", "musing" and so on is concerned.…
Article comments
26 - Eric Berlin
Duke - I think in a way you touch on the present cultural divide in the US, with a great many people in the "blue states" siding with you whereas the red staters, or a good chunk of them, believe just as fiercely whatever it is that they believe.
I guess it's getting to the point where the divide on social issues, as of 2005, is wider than that on taxes, foreign policy (we're in Iraq: what next?), or anything else really.