I just posted the last Star Trek review. As I explained somewhere, the main idea I had was to highlight the progressive politics of ST. That was about 1/3; using the plot of the episodes as an excuse, about 1/3 of the time I was discussing real world politics similar to what was happening in the episodes; and 1/3 I was making brief, non-political comments about the episodes, as well as rating them with between one and five stars.
I wish there was more political content- I had nothing to comment on politically for about 1/2 of all the episodes, even more for Voyager and The Next Generation. But I’m still glad I did it.
I’m now going to start watching Star Trek: Enterprise, but from what I remember there’s almost zero political content at all, except for one whole season which seems to be inspired by a moderate (not progressive) look at 9/11. So I’m not going to do any reviews of that. UPDATE 1/29/10 After watching the first of four seasons, I think there might be enough good liberal-progressive material to justify doing reviews; If that's what I notice with the last 3 seasons, then next time I watch ENT, in about 2 years, I'll do reviews.
Unless I start doing a better job of following the news (looking at everything, I’ve been reading about 60 articles a week) this will probably be the last post I do. The blog contains almost nothing that will be affected by current events. Which also means that you can and should read the earlier posts and feel free to comment on them. (the earlier posts are NOT Star Trek reviews, they are mostly essays about the themes of this blog)
I think that’s it.
Tom
This blog is mostly about 3 themes- Irish Republicanism, Star Trek, and opposition to bigotry, primarily in America (racism, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc.). It is mostly about Northern Ireland. It will mostly be about these issues in general and past events and will only sometimes touch on current events. Feel free to comment on the earlier posts.
About My Blog
My blog is about history, popular culture, politics and current events from a democratic socialist and Irish republican perspective. The two main topics are Northern Ireland on one hand and fighting anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on the other. The third topic is supporting the Palestinians, and there are several minor topics. The three main topics overlap quite a bit. I have to admit that it’s not going to help me get a graduate degree, especially because it’s almost always written very casually. But there are some high-quality essays, some posts that come close to being high-quality essays, political reviews of Sci-Fi TV episodes (Star Trek and Babylon 5), and a unique kind of political, progressive poetry you won't find anywhere else. (there are also reviews of episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and reviews of Roseanne)
(my old blog was not showing up in Google search results AT ALL (99% of it wasn't being web-crawled or indexed or whatever) and there was another big problem with it, so this is a mirror of the old one although there will be some occassionnal editing of old posts and there will be new posts. I started this blog 12/16/20; 4/28/21 I am now done with re-doing the internal links on my blog) (the Google problem with my blog (only 1% of this new one is showing up in Google search results) is why I include a URL of my blog when commenting elsewhere, otherwise I would get almost no visitors at all)
(The "Table of Contents" offers brief descriptions of all but the most recent posts)
(I just recently realized that my definition of "disapora" was flawed- I thought it included, for example, Jews in Israel, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and with the Irish diaspora, the Irish on that island. I'll do some work on that soon (11/21/20 I have edited the relevant paragraph in my post about Zionism))
(If you're really cool and link to my blog from your site/blog, let me know) (if you contact me, use the word "blog" in the subject line so I'll know it's not spam)
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