LINK: For those who wish to procrastinate, but who also desire to feel as if they're doing something somehow work-related, there's always this thread on Crooked Timber, suggesting summer reading for political philosophers.

YOUR DAVID BOWIE LYRIC OF THE DAY:

"Putting on some clothes I made my way to school
And I found my teacher crouching in his overalls
I screamed and ran to smash my favourite slot machine
And jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights"

"Panic in Detroit", from Aladdin Sane

SOME WORDS OF COMMON SENSE:

"However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don't hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.

Also, you can severely reduce your chances of being raped if you do not go to strange men's houses and take your clothes off for money. (Does anyone else detect a common thread here?)"

Don't let the fact that it was Ann Coulter who wrote them throw you off (if you're the sort of person to be thrown off by that).

A QUICK DISTRACTION FROM WORKING:

"Tactful cactus by your window
Surveys the prairie of your room
Mobile spins to its collision
Clara puts her head between her paws
They've opened shops down West side
Will all the cacti find a home
But the key to the city
Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky..."