Friday. posted by Richard Seymour

Ordinarily, I spend my Friday nights hi-jacking cop cars, then speeding toward the Thames in them with the windows down and NWA's "Fuck the Police" blasting at top volume until I plunge into the icy underwater graveyard, swim to the surface and clamber out to take a piss in the water.

Tonight, however, I'll just draw your attention to one or two things. First, my favourite academic Mark Kaplan has added another blog to his roster, this one a Critical Dictionary excerpting informative texts to explain apparently difficult concepts in continental philosophy. It's big and clever.

Et Alia , who studies reveal is a schizoid, schizotypal, borderline, dependent obsessive-compulsive, has a fireside chat about John Rawls' Theory of Justice.

Many of my readers will need to consult the Axis of Logic on How to Avoid Becoming an Anti-American .

I myself am busying myself lapping up the encomiums and flattery of Marc Mullholland like a porn star gobbling semen. I hope the process is as good for him as it is for me. In particular:

"Lenin is as clever as Dickens, has excellent attack skills, and sports the finest line in funny profanity to be found on the web. It is my experience that Ulster produces the most able cussers in these islands. Lenin is an ornament of the tradition: his mum must be proud."

It's almost worth coming from that shithole to have something like that written about you.

Finally, you absolutely must buy or steal a copy of Immortal Technique's glorious album, Revolutionary (Volume II). A rapper who dices, peels and slices the Bush administration with incomparable invective and actual learning is one thing. Add to that a hit of revolutionary socialism in the mainline, and you have a class act. Seriously. This guy feels at home talking about Latin American history just as much as he does about Israel, the drug industry, the music business, terrorism etc., and he does it with murderous rhymes full of satiric cuts and verbal bullets aimed at the rich and powerful.