7/10/2004 09:38:00 PM|||Joe|||Applied for an apartment near Thomson-West. It's a little pricey for me, but it is very close, so I should save on gas.

Been reading a good book by Peter Singer: The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush. If you know anything about Singer, you probably have an opinion about him. But he's one of those guys that, even if you disagree with him, you can't call him a sophist or a charlatan. He presents excellent and well-thought out arguments.

BTW, I happen to agree with most of what he says. He comes across as extremely rational, but not detached.

Something this book (so far) as re-affirmed for me is that your average politician isn't evil. Merely extremely misguided. That's the most charitable conclusion I can come to. Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and yes, even Kerry, are misguided. Where is the Socratic yearning for justice and perfection? Where is the raw intellect, unencumbered by rhetoric?|||108952152729135222|||New Digs