The long week-end

The long week-end comes to an end. It's interesting to see what
the mood of a nation is during 4th of July. Sometimes it appears
absolutely right to celebrate the great nation in an exhuberant,
corny way. Other times, it's seems more appropriate to get quiet
somewhere and read, again, the Constitution.

The spirit of democracy is the thing of beauty. I'm reminded that
in all cultures, America included, it's always a fight between
evil, nihilism, destructive energies and constructive, good
energies that attempt to assert the very best of a culture at
the center of itself.

The mood is less sure of itself this time around but not in
despair at least. After Vietnam and Watergate this nation was
broken, in spirit, and it had a palling effect for some time.
It can never get so demoralized that it forgets how to make
things, how to build things, how to sacrifice for the future,
how to put value at the core of the thing built, devil take
the hindmost.

At any rate, we go back to work. The magazine is up next.
Sunoasis X 2004 was fairly good and we continue to look how
to improve it. I think the best thing we've done at Sunoasis Jobs
is to have a fairly comprehensive joblog that tries to monitor
some of the things going on in the writing world.