The making of a conservative, huh? One might find this a bit suspect coming from UC-Berkley, which is known for a few things, conservativism definitely not being one of them.

My most prized possession is a book called The Ninth Wave, written by Eugene Burdick, a Berkely professor who died in 1965. It was written almost 50 years ago but its message is more than relevant with what's happening today. Whenever I read about what's happening to Gray Davis, I get a shiver thinking how close Burdick's fiction may be fact. If you care at all about politics, read this book. It's out of print now but you can buy it used. I want to start a petition to get the publisher to reprint it but haven't gotten my act together yet.

Trotsky had it right when he wrote about Russia's Ninth Wave. Fucking Stalin. Who knows what might have been if Trotsky's view of the revolution had prevailed.