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Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Graduate Students, Non-Fiction Readers, Progressive & Liberal!, Radical History, Reading Globally, Social Democrats & Democratic Socialists, The Globe, The Prizes, Treehuggers — show all groups , Working Class

Favorite authorsHannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Eduard Bernstein, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Mikhail Bulgakov, John Le Carré, Milovan Djilas, Robert Fisk, Michel Foucault, Alexander Hamilton, John Heartfield, Joseph Heller, Herodotus, Christopher Hitchens, E. J. Hobsbawm, C.L.R. James, Tony Judt, Ryszard Kapuściński, Robert Kee, Arthur Koestler, T. E. Lawrence, Rian Malan, André Malraux, Karl Marx, Ernie O'Malley, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, David Simon, Hunter S. Thompson, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBartleby's Books, Daedalus Books, Powell's City of Books, Smith Family Bookstore - Campus, Smith Family Bookstore - Downtown

About meI'm a democratic socialist/social democrat (in the European tradition) living in a nation of economic liberals, reactionary populists, traditional conservatives, religious fundamentalists, docile nationalists, imperialistic neo-conservatives, amoral hedonists and the obligatory handful of extremist right- and left-leaning anti-statists... Consequently, my free hours are typically dedicated to histories, political theory, literature, a thorough review of national and international news or a heated political debate regarding any number of the pressing issues of our time.

As of now, I should be considered semi-retired from LT Talk. Too much on my plate, I'm afraid. That said, don't hesitate to leave me a message. I'll be logging in for perfectly selfish reasons (digital library maintenance, and what have you) regularly.

Member of:
The Democratic Party (US)

Philosophically aligned with:
The Socialist International

Contributing member of:
The American Civil Liberties Union;
Amnesty International;
Conservation International;
The Nature Conservancy

Lapsed contributing member of:
The Sierra Club;
The Wilderness Society;
The Electronic Frontier Foundation

Former (and future!) biannual contributor to:
Doctors without Borders

And, finally, a regular subscriber to:
In These Times;
The Economist;
Foreign Affairs;
Dissent

About my libraryThis is my corporeal library. A partial library of books that I've read, but do not own, can be found here, and a selection of books which I would one day like to peruse can be found here. Oh, and for the record, this is not me.

Oh, and, for what it's worth, my ratings are by no means final (for now, anyway). The following ratings guide will be formalized whenever I need a good reason to procrastinate.

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Member sinceAug 18, 2007