If only to show that this blog can be used for good, too, I should point out just how excellent is "The Runaway Jury" commentary over at Alex Good's place.
Carmine Starnino's contributions alone could be bundled into a pamphlet entitled How Poetry Works And Why. It'd be a lot more useful than prankish French intellectuals claiming that books are mostly arbitrary cultural constructs that possess no individual magic.
(Just so things aren't too positive, let me just say that Alex really needs to invest some new blogging software.)
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