In the meantime, the air war over Milwaukee continues unabated. I finally got in a decent day of studying yesterday both at the Courtyard of the Fountain, and then in Raynor Library with Shawnee. I'll try to repeat as much as I can today, but I'm marooned here for the time being, waiting for Fed Ex to arrive with my new bookcases. And, of course, I'll have to assemble those and start stacking....
Over lunch I read an article in the new Notre Dame Magazine by the always-engaging Robert Schmuhl from Notre Dame's American Studies program, and whose fabulously-bright son Mike I was privileged to teach. This one is well worth reading, if you've the time. In "That's News To Me" he asks, "A smorgasbord of media outlets -- many pushing an agenda over objectivity -- is enabling people to choose the news they want to hear. Is that good for America?" His treatment of the question seemed both informed and not given over to too-easy answers.