The Yellow Stripe

It occurs that I should elaborate on yesterday's post. (Suck it, Crosby!)

I was linked to a post in musesfool on sports fans and schadenfruede - itself a comment on the Slate article "Why we root for underdogs."

( Germane here, because... )

Too bad I'm too lazy to refine this into a study of actual merit/quality. Somebody could do some quality school work on this theme.

Have signed up to contribute an Essay for buffyversemeta - planned date July 11 - and am looking to tackle the following topic:



So I figure - as an added feature of my journaling experience - that I'd crack this open a little and give a small glimpse of my process. And for me, if I actually take time to write something rather than just wrenching out of my rear, the #1 step is the Question List.

As most of you might guess - given my professional and academic background - my initial inclination is to say that something resembling the Initiative would certainly be needed in a world where demons exist. But we're working with a question that can either be broad or specific...

So let's look at the topic, and see what issues are springing to mind, to see what I might want to investigate.
( Some questions to Consider )