A few items of interest:

1) This website contains interesting flash animations that involve kitty cats in music videos. Some of them are creative, but I can't vouch for all of them. Trippy. So, check out Rather Good

2) Tonight I'm going to enjoy some free tickets, courtesy of the Torrey Honors program, to see the Lord of the Rings symphony at the Hollywood Bowl. This is my first time going to the Bowl, and the music's good. I'm looking forward to it.

3) I was thinking about Chesterton's article today about America, when I happened upon a section in my historiography that peaked my interest. It talked about a Tory historian who was exiled from America. An American exile seems strange to me. But it's not. If you disagree with the Creed of America (our Constitution), then you haven't got any real call to be an American. And Chesterton talked about it, but the full implications were driven home.

In other countries, you can have different ideas about government and live there, because the government isn't based on an idea, but on a state of affairs. But in America, the social contract is defined by the ideas in the Constitution. Doesn't this entail those that are living document advocates of the Constitution should be thrown out of the country? They disagree the document means anything, anyway, in a proper sense of meaning. :-)