Why?

Why PodMonkeyX?

ICANN was running out of names and I just wanted a good one. I was working in a cube farm, and it captured that eerie unique anonymity.   This URL has been way more consistent than my address or telephone number, so in the days before Facebook it was the best way for people to find me.   I do this for a living and also for fun. Lucky for me, I have LOTS of energy. If you can wake me up, I shouldn't have been asleep.

Aren't you selling anything?

Nope.   This is 100% commercial-free space.  (I miss that.  Don't you?)  My privacy policy, to the extent I need one at all, is that I'll fight tooth and claw to protect whatever small amount of information is collected here.   

Why do it?

IMHO what is in the public domain should be freely available to the public without dependence on commercial interests, no matter how benign.  

Why Lippmann?

Lippmann's practical and expansive vision made a strong impression in college. He takes after Bertrand Russell, but suffered none of the public scandals that pigeon-holed Russell. He is that conservative-looking dead guy you can quote in history classes, and in frequently studied . Like Russell, his reasoning is thorough and disarming, leaving critics to either concede or simply disagree. All but one of his 40+ works are out of print, and in 1998 the internet yielded only a few quotes, often badly out of context.